[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
and we need to stay reasonably in sync with numpy, scipy, and python. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 29, 1:09 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I have written the two people I could find who might care about Sage > on linux ppc and invited them to respond here, or I will summarize or > forward a

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have written the two people I could find who might care about Sage on linux ppc and invited them to respond here, or I will summarize or forward any direct response. On Sep 29, 1:02 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I wasn't asking for a majority vote.  I'm wondering if _anyone_

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
It looks like it might be a while before this is fixed by numpy: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1403 Given the importance of numpy to Sage, I think it might make sense to drop support for PPC linux. On the positive side: 1) There are considerable improvements to numpy and scipy in the l

[sage-devel] Memory leak

2010-03-04 Thread Marshall Hampton
I am forwarding this from sage-support because it seems like it might be a serious problem. -Marshall -- Forwarded message -- From: Yann Date: Mar 4, 5:49 pm Subject: Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees? To: sage-support sage: R.=QQ[] sage: whi

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had the same error as Carlo, which I reported for the alpha4 and rc0 releases as well. I'm sort of puzzled, given the nature of the error, as to why more people don't see it. I also had sage -t "devel/sage/doc/en/bordeaux_2008/birds_other.rst" A mysterious error (perhaps a memory error?) occ

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I mostly agree. 2 months is acceptable. 6 months seems too long for all the reaons Jason articulated. -Marshall On Oct 13, 10:09 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > As it is, there is a semi-major research code contribution I plan to > make before Christmas that will be needed at a workshop in January,

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
> > In many talks, etc., I have made a big stink about how every released > version of Sage is available, so if a paper uses sage-x.y.z, then it > is possible to get sage-x.y.z and try out the computation (unlike the > situation with magma, say).So I think making the old source easy > to find

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I like the sticker idea too. I'm not sure how to go about making them - anyone know a good place to order custom tiny stickers? It would be cool to use the sage logo if it could be printed small & crisply. -Marshall On Oct 13, 7:21 pm, Dan Drake wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 at 10:38PM -0700,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, I'll print up 500 business cards and anyone who wants some can just let me know. I think it will be interesting to see how the meeting goes without an informal presence. Last year we had a big footprint with the booth, AMS session and MAA session. But I think there has been tremendous progr

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
Yes, please! Ondrej's usage is very similar to mine. I would find it quite annoying to have to os.path.join all the time. Marshall On Oct 12, 11:54 am, William Stein wrote: > OK, I'll change it to end in os.path.sep, which is cross-platform and > still allows for your use case above. > > Will

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
Its a little thing, but I noticed that the DATA directory is missing its last '/', which is present in previous notebook versions. I like having a trailing '/' present in a directory string, so this seems like a regression. Haven't noticed anything else yet. -Marshall On Oct 12, 12:03 am, Will

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'd be happy to, although I will have a pro-positive review bias. -Marshall On Oct 11, 4:50 am, MaxTheMouse wrote: > I have put up a new package > athttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/awebb/biopython-1.52.p0.spkg > if someone would like to review it. > > Adam --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
One alternative would be to patch the test_Wise.py file so that instead of self.assert_(sys.stdout.getvalue().startswith("dnal -kbyte 10 seq1.fna seq2.fna")) within test_dnal we'd have self.assert_(sys.stdout.getvalue().startswith("dnal -kbyte 10") and similarly for test_psw. That wou

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.2.rc0 released

2009-10-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have only one test failure on sage-4.1.2.rc0; I also had it on the alpha4: File "/Volumes/E/sage-4.1.2.rc0/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/ cell.py", line 1601: sage: C.introspect_html() Expected: '...foobar...' Got: 'foobar' This is on an intel Mac Pro running OS 10.4.11 -Marsha

[sage-devel] Re: Polynomial Factoring Content Problem

2009-09-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
Wow, that's quite disturbing. Did you make a trac ticket for this? -Marshall Hampton On Sep 30, 7:32 pm, AndyNovo wrote: > Hi all, > > Found this simple bug in a simple Z[x] factoring example. > > R.=PolynomialRing(ZZ) > f = 12*x^10 + x^9 + 432*x^3 + 9011 > g = 13*x

[sage-devel] Re: #sage-devel on irc

2009-09-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think Jason is in Iowa, not Idaho. Often confused by coastal folks, but very different. I was marveling at the broad distribution as well yesterday, its great to see. While developers are still mostly in Europe and the US, things are improving. I think we could probably benefit from more exp

[sage-devel] Re: taking a break from release management

2009-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
Sounds like a good idea. I think you've done a great job on the recent releases. Thanks, Marshall On Sep 29, 1:23 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I need to devote some serious time to my thesis project starting 01st > October 2009. Before doing that, I would like to wrap up an rc0 > rel

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
So far that looks like a real improvement! I end up making my own bookmarks for useful but hard to find wiki pages, although I think in some cases I tried to edit the front page to put them there. Like http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpOnTheDoc and http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEn

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.2.alpha4 released

2009-09-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had those two failures plus two in cell.py: File "/Volumes/E/sage-4.1.2.alpha4/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/ cell.py", line 1601: sage: C.introspect_html() Expected: '...foobar...' Got: 'foobar' and: File "/Volumes/E/sage-4.1.2.alpha4/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/ cell.py",

[sage-devel] Re: unix

2009-09-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
Oh, no, sorry - somehow I skipped over the "freely available" part your request. My apologies. -Marshall On Sep 26, 6:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies". > >

[sage-devel] Re: unix

2009-09-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies". I can't really review it effectively, since I knew most of what's in it before getting it, but it seems pretty good for a total newbie. What was very helpful to me after I learned some basics was O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, but that might be overwhelmin

[sage-devel] Re: survey: how many "cpus" do you have?

2009-09-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
Well said. It's clearly a big improvement, and simple. Works well on all the machines I have available. -Marshall On Sep 24, 7:04 pm, Dan Drake wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 at 08:32AM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: > > So, back to the original question: for parallel testing, can we set > > the

[sage-devel] Re: PIL decoder jpeg not available

2009-09-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm pretty sure I've fixed this once on a mac, but unfortunately I can't remember what I did. In fact, sadly, I'm not sure I knew what I did at the time, I just kept trying different things I until it worked. >From your original link, I think we just have to correctly do option 5, i.e. edit the

[sage-devel] Re: IRC logs for #sage-devel?

2009-09-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have mixed feelings but in general I think it would be good to log. Knowing that it is logged will affect how I interact with it - I would say fewer personal things - but I have learned a huge amount from #sage-devel and it could be of great use to other people. So, overall, +1 to a formal log.

[sage-devel] Re: n(list)

2009-09-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think it would be great if n() and other functions mapped to a list. I don't see the downside, but maybe I am missing something. -Marshall On Sep 8, 5:38 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Simon King wrote: > > Hi Burcin, > > > On Sep 8, 11:21 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > >> I would call it a bug, a si

[sage-devel] Re: Standard Sage Components (was Re: Solaris - what do we expect?)

2009-09-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
I proposed making the lrs spkg standard about a year ago; Micheal Abshoff then critiqued the optional spkg and gave me a list of things I needed to do. I think I have done all of them, and I would very much like to see lrs made standard to move the polytope functionality forward. I really doubt

[sage-devel] Re: Review Day next Tuesday (22 Sep)

2009-09-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
Cool. Tuesdays aren't very good for me, but I will do my best to do some reviews that day. I will try to at least address some of the polytope-related patches. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 15, 3:46 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > We have been extremely blessed lately with a load

[sage-devel] Re: experience with lulu

2009-09-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
Printing the color-highlighted docs in B&W doesn't work very well. Its legible, but the lighter colors come out faint and hard to read. You can replace the PDF fairly easily. If you buy 25 or more copies, the price per copy falls a lot. Apart from the color-highlighting issue, I have been impre

[sage-devel] Re: Sage review in SIAM Review

2009-08-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
me/new-server "issues" here. > > Thanks, > Rob > > On Aug 27, 12:55 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > That link doesn't seem to work. > > > -Marshall > > > On Aug 27, 2:15 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > > > > Back in March, I solicit

[sage-devel] Re: Sage review in SIAM Review

2009-08-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
That link doesn't seem to work. -Marshall On Aug 27, 2:15 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > Back in March, I solicited help with a review of Sage 3.4 for the Book > Reviews section of SIAM Review. That will appear soon as a "Featured > Review," and I've put up an un-edited preprint version at: > > http:

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6? - review please!

2009-08-17 Thread Marshall Hampton
would be great if someone could review this! -Marshall Hampton On Jul 28, 10:44 am, Marshall Hampton wrote: > Well,biopythondevelopment is pretty active right now, so 1.51 will > have quite a few changes from the beta. There is still quite a lot of > discussion about what will be in 1.51

[sage-devel] Re: proposal to make PIL standard

2009-08-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm all in favor of PIL as standard. Does it install OK on Solaris? I can't think of any other objection. -Marshall On Aug 13, 6:32 pm, David Joyner wrote: > Hi: > > I'd like to suggest that PIL be made standard. This requires a vote. > > Though PIL is written in Python, the trac > tickethttp

[sage-devel] Re: easy reviews for Sage 4.1.1.final

2009-08-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I noticed you changed "pyrex" to "Pyrex", which is fine, but should this just be changed to "Cython" everywhere? Do we ever use plain Pyrex as opposed to Cython? -Marshall On Aug 11, 1:06 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > sage: So, mvngu. What have you been doing these last few days? > mv

[sage-devel] Re: easy reviews for Sage 4.1.1.final

2009-08-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'll try to do a few too. Btw, I have an easy to review patch at:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543 that brings tachyon coverage to 100%. If anyone can review that, I would appreciate it. -Marshall On Aug 11, 1:12 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Minh N

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti) build problems

2009-08-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
;, both packages can be > imported in sage > ("sage: import nifti" and "sage: import mvpa") without error messages. > > A nifticlib-problem with "pynifti-p0.spkg" ? > > - Arvid Lundervold > > ... > On Aug 7, 3:02 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-06 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have a proposed experimental pynifti package, tracked as ticket #6678: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6678 -Marshall On Aug 5, 10:23 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > Maybe this was some sort of path issue I don't understand, but when I > tried things again it seemed to wo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I forgot to cc my reply here, so anyone interested should perhaps respond on sage-support where the original post is. -Marshall On Aug 5, 10:12 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > > > > > I gave this a shot but it

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
how to proceed. This looks like a nice opportunity for Sage to become more relevant in biomedical imaging. -Marshall Hampton On Aug 5, 1:46 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Aug 5, 8:36 pm, Arvid wrote: > > > Will it be possible to incorporate access to NIfTI and ANALYZE files &g

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2 and glpk spkgs

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
h fail to install on my amd64 ubuntu 9.04 machine. I have > N Cohen's version of the > glpk spkg installed. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > OK, that was stupid of me, I should have looked in the experimental > > packages first. Ther

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.1.rc0 released

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
en, John Palmieri] > #6251: Dan Drake: LogoutResource in sage/server/simple/twist.py > doesn't really log you out [Reviewed by William Stein, John Palmieri] > #6302: William Stein: make openopt an optional spkg [Reviewed by David > Joyner, Harald Schilly] > #6506: Robert Bradsh

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got from Minh's comment: "Once #6502 gets positive review, this SPKG could then be merged in the Sage standard packages repository." -Marshall On Jul 31, 6:20 pm, David Joyner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > Thanks f

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
maybe standard eventually. Just to be clear, I have felt that in the past the hurdle for becoming a standard package is too high. I just want the process to be consistent. -Marshall On Jul 31, 4:51 pm, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:18:58PM -0700, Marshall Hampton wr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm not disagreeing, I just don't know how to quickly change that. If someone can give me some tips I will at least patch the spkgs. -Marshall On Jul 31, 4:21 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > > > > >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
y" wrote: > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Marshall Hampton wrote: > >> I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting > >> it to recognize GMP. I'm sure many people on this list are more > >> qualified than I am to figure that

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2 and glpk spkgs

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, that was stupid of me, I should have looked in the experimental packages first. There are older ones for 4ti2 and glpk, which might solve my problems. -Marshall On Jul 31, 11:15 am, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I'm just editing the subject line to attract attention from people >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2 and glpk spkgs

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm just editing the subject line to attract attention from people like Mike Hansen who might have done overlapping work. -Marshall On Jul 31, 11:03 am, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting > it to recognize GMP. I'm

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting it to recognize GMP. I'm sure many people on this list are more qualified than I am to figure that out. t4i2 requires the linear programming package glpk, which I think I did succeed in making an spkg for - at least it works o

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6?

2009-07-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
between the beta and 1.51 > final are? > > Thomas > > On Jul 27, 12:30 am, bbarker wrote: > > > Great, glad to see this! Thanks for the updated spkg. > > > On Jul 26, 9:47 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > > Ok, I posted my spkg at: > > > &

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6?

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
plate). -Marshall On Jul 26, 12:25 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for pointing that out. I have made a 1.51b spkg, but decided > to wait a week or two for the final 1.51 to come out. But I didn't > realize that the 1.49b install was broken. > > Anyway if you h

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6?

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
n for one. I am excited about their cleanup too, I think with a little more work biopython can be made a standard part of sage, but that will require a developer vote. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 26, 12:05 pm, tkeller wrote: > Thanks for all the recent work upgrading the base python distribution

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
> > I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago. It was > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook. It went perfectly. > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in > Mathematica's no

[sage-devel] Re: boost coverage by 0.5%

2009-07-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
You can get another .25% or so from: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543 -Marshall On Jul 24, 7:06 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > Want to boost doctest coverage in Sage by 0.5%? Review the ticket > > >

[sage-devel] Re: Catalan Numbers

2009-07-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
You could make the ultimate "proof-without-words" submission! I think this is cool, and although I am not a combinatorics person at all it seems reasonable as an addition to sage. I think it could underpin a really fantastic @interact. -Marshall On Jul 23, 1:20 am, Tom Boothby wrote: > Richar

[sage-devel] Re: Python, Cython and JavaScript resources

2009-07-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
Nice, thats quite helpful. Thanks! On Jul 22, 1:24 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > Sage Wiki pages on Python, Cython, and JavaScript resources: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/PythonResourceshttp://wiki.sagemath.org/JavascriptResources > > Currently, both are accessible from the wiki home page. > > Plea

[sage-devel] Re: TachyonPlot function in sage.plot.plot3d.tachyon: used?

2009-07-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
A patch is up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543. I deleted the TachyonPlot class, which was not used anywhere and mostly undocumented. I can't find any record online of people using it or even talking about it. Who wrote it - Tom Boothby? I can't tell. If it has potential to d

[sage-devel] Re: Mac OS X .app technique

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
I would think that is what most people would want. -Marshall On Jul 21, 3:42 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, gsw wrote: > > > > > On 21 Jul., 22:13, Robert Bradshaw > > wrote: > >> On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:25 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > >>> On Jul 21, 1:14 pm, Žiga Lenarčič

[sage-devel] Re: Central location for potential problems that may haunt us one day?

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
It seems best to just file a trac ticket - I'm not sure what the downside is to that. Perhaps we could make a new "milestone" for such issues, since they don't quite fit in "feature" or "wishlist". But I think it would be confusing to do something apart from trac. -M. Hampton On Jul 21, 11:20 a

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks - i.e. I do the "interactive" stuff in advance. I'm not sure what is available on linux for this, but on the mac I use iShowU, which is commercial but only about $25 and cheerfully written and maintained by one guy. Of course

[sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
he future there will be more possibilities of moving things to javascript, as it gets nicer and the implementations speed up (for example, the recent work by William and John Palmieri on animations using javascript). Cheers, Marshall Hampton On Jul 21, 3:18 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Robert Bra

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
I was curious, so I tried to apply the patch to 4.1 but it was rejected. It wasn't clear to me why, maybe it needs to be rebased. -Marshall On Jul 20, 3:27 pm, Robert Miller wrote: > > Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the patches > > in trac #6342? > > I found a few (

[sage-devel] Re: sage -upgrade via mirrors

2009-07-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hi Jan, I thought you could do something like: sage -upgrade ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/mirrors/www.sagemath.org/ i.e. you can give an explicit URL, but that doesn't seem to work. I guess the tarball needs to be unpacked on that mirror for it work - ? -Marshall On Jul 20, 7:56 am, Jan Groenewal

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package

2009-07-19 Thread Marshall Hampton
One minor typo: under "Self-organized criticality", "ascpect" should be "aspect". The documentation is excellent, that's quite impressive. As I am unfamiliar with the subject, I haven't absorbed enough of it to make really helpful comments but I will try to look more closely. One thing that com

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: CoMarketing: Sage & Sun

2009-07-19 Thread Marshall Hampton
- Are there specific Sage products that should be highlighted in an Open Source for Education campaign? If so, which ones and why? This seems like a tricky one - the key question I think is what is the audience of this marketing effort? Does it include K-12, or primarily undergraduate educatio

[sage-devel] Re: Tachyon still working?

2009-07-17 Thread Marshall Hampton
tched. -Marshall On Jul 16, 12:27 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I have added a patch that fixes this, available at: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6542/trac_65... > > Since tachyon is currently broken on all systems in sage-4.1, I fixed > the immediate problem

[sage-devel] Re: Error with "Tachyon.show()"

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
Are you using sage 4.1? Unfortunately the tachyon interface got broken in that release, but there is a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542 which will fix this in 4.1.1. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 16, 4:36 pm, Marcello Seri wrote: > I'm learning to use SAGE because

[sage-devel] Re: Tachyon still working?

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
tachyon.py. That is now trac ticket #6542: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542 If anyone has already started fixing the coverage of the tachyon.py files, please let me know so I don't duplicate effort. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 16, 6:50 am, Marshall Hampton wrote: > Works OK for

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for inclusion of Frobby spkg

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
tion ‘void TestSuite::sortTests ()’: src/test/TestSuite.cpp:43: error: ‘sort’ was not declared in this scope make: *** [bin/shared/test/TestSuite.o] Error 1 -Marshall On Jul 16, 10:39 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > Marshall Hampton wrote: > > Does it work on Solaris? My impression is

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for inclusion of Frobby spkg

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
Does it work on Solaris? My impression is that is a required feature now for standard inclusion. -M. Hampton On Jul 16, 9:00 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Bjarke Hammersholt > > Roune wrote: > > > > > Frobby has an extensive test-suite, which includes running Frob

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and Singular Talk

2009-07-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
On page 28, "imature" should be "immature". On page 46, "montsh" should be "months". On page 47, "test" should be "tests". On page 48, "plattforms" should be "platforms". Cheers, Marshall On Jul 15, 5:25 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Hi there, > > next week I'll visit the Singular group in Ka

[sage-devel] Re: ._ files

2009-07-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
Helpful post on avoiding this: http://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/22/tar ...upshot is that one should add export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true to your profile if using leopard, or COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true if using tiger or previous stuff (I don't think many sage developers are using somet

[sage-devel] Re: OSSC2009 conference

2009-07-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think the answer is probably no, since the (extended) submission deadline is over, but they don't have a posted schedule yet. It appears to be very Scilab-focused. -M.Hampton On Jul 13, 3:07 pm, Hazem wrote: > Will Sage be represented in this conference? > > http://www.osscweb.org/ > > Hazem

[sage-devel] Fwd: SAGE lecturer needed

2009-07-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think this is worth forwarding here since I suspect many qualified people don't read sage-edu much. -M. Hampton -- Forwarded message -- From: jan.groenew...@gmail.com Date: Jun 24, 6:13 am Subject: SAGE lecturer needed To: sage-edu Hi, The African Institute for Mathematical

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1

2009-07-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I do get one test failure still, from a deprecation warning about using popen2 instead of the subprocess module: sage -t "devel/sage/sage/parallel/decorate.py" /Volumes/E/sage-4.1/local/lib/python2.6/os.py:669: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the 'lin

[sage-devel] Re: sources

2009-07-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
Seems like it might be worth it to save 65 MB! The 7z source is small and looks pretty portable. -M. Hampton On Jul 9, 9:37 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Jul 9, 5:20 pm, Kevin Horton wrote: > > > I have tried compressing the sage.*.tar files using gzip and bzip2. > > The compression is insig

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.rc1

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
precationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. sage -t "devel/sage/sage/plot/axes.py" A mysterious error (perhaps a memory error?) occurred, which may have crashed doctest. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 8, 1:09 am, Robert Miller wrote: > All known issues hav

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
Yes, that mathematica code could be made much more concise. Its definitely not a fair comparison. Also, one reason its so long is that the graphical output has been massaged to look like matlab/ matplotlib. I think a more mathematica-native display wouldn't need so many options changed. -Marsh

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Marshall Hampton
I made some other copies on Lulu, with more elaborate covers, of all the documentation, for the 2009 joint meetings. I have been planning on doing that again with the new docs but haven't gotten around to it. -Marshall On Jul 6, 10:25 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > >> * No g

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.alpha3

2009-07-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
On an intel mac running 10.4.11, I get: The following tests failed: sage -t "devel/sage/doc/fr/tutorial/programming.rst" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/misc/darwin_utilities.pyx" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/misc/sagedoc.py" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/parallel/decorate.p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.alpha1

2009-06-25 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got the following on an intel mac, 10.4.11, not sure which are known or unknown issues at this point: The following tests failed: sage -t "devel/sage/doc/fr/tutorial/programming.rst" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/misc/darwin_util

[sage-devel] Re: sage 4.0.2.rc3 released

2009-06-18 Thread Marshall Hampton
All tests passed on an intel mac pro running 10.4.11. The tests took 6975 seconds, which seems like a big increase from 3.0.2 (4818 seconds) and 3.4 (5358 seconds). Is this simply because of the additional doctests, or are there serious speed regressions somewhere? I recall some discussion abou

[sage-devel] Re: MEGA talk

2009-06-18 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm having trouble uploading this to anything. On my own laptop, after a long time I get "header line too long". I gave up waiting for sagenb to load it after about 10 minutes. -Marshall On Jun 17, 10:19 pm, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote my MEGA plenary talk, which I'm giving in abou

[sage-devel] Re: Nelder-Mead Simplices Algorithm for Minimization.

2009-06-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
There is a simplex method implemented in scipy.optimize, I think its the default for the function fmin (see http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html for instance). On the other hand, the scipy functions are very float-oriented, so if your implementation could handle more

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.2.rc0 released

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
I only got the known singular.pyx and and number_field_element.pyx failures on an intel mac running 10.4.11. -M. Hampton On Jun 15, 1:13 am, Nick Alexander wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's Sage 4.0.2.rc0. Come and get it while it's hot: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ncalexan/releases > >

[sage-devel] Re: Strange behaviour with loading files and numpy

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm not sure what is happening but I would guess that at some point the ^(1/2) gets turned into ^(0), and then your standard deviation goes from .06... to 1. I.e., it seems like maybe the preparser doesn't catch these nested loadings. -M. Hampton On Jun 15, 1:54 pm, Pogon wrote: > Hi, > I'm no

[sage-devel] Re: div and curl

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, I'll try to improve it then. -Marshall On Jun 14, 11:10 pm, Nick Alexander wrote: > On 14-Jun-09, at 8:56 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > > > > I care, I have written div and curl routines for my multivariable calc > > classes before, but they were more hacki

[sage-devel] Re: polymake and other optional spkg

2009-06-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I care about the polymake spkg, and I know a few users who do too. It would be nice to fix it; the last time I tried to install it I got some errors I didn't understand at all so I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. Its probably out of date anyway, so it might be best to start from scratch

[sage-devel] Re: div and curl

2009-06-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I care, I have written div and curl routines for my multivariable calc classes before, but they were more hackish than yours. I will try to review that ticket soon, if no one beats me to it. -Marshall On Jun 14, 4:06 pm, Nick Alexander wrote: > I have no idea if this is already done or anybody

[sage-devel] Re: Determining platform when building an spkg

2009-06-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
The following is the beginning of the optional phcpack spkg, which tries to get the architecture using python. I am hopeless at bash, I'm sure there are ways to do it that way too: #!/usr/bin/env python import os uname = os.uname() main_arch = uname[0] sub_arch = uname[-1] then for example if

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
That sounds awesome - convert the entire Sage development process to an online RPG, where the basic quests are merging tickets! -Marshall On Jun 9, 3:34 am, Craig Citro wrote: > > I've been > > thinking about writing something like this up for a while now, but > > there's never enough time to d

[sage-devel] Re: Sage "Grand Tour"

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I realize you are trying to keep it concise, but I have 2 suggestions for geometry and interfaces: geometry: p = polytopes.twenty_four_cell() show(p.render_wireframe(), frame = False) and interfaces (Gfan): r3. = PolynomialRing(QQ,3) vort_ideal = r3.ideal([-6*x*y*z+x*y+x*z+6*y*z-y^2-z^2, -6*x*y

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.rc0 (rc2)

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had two failures on an intel mac running 10.4 (for rc2): sage -t "devel/sage/sage/numerical/optimize.py" sage -t "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py" The relation.py failures: sage -t "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py" *

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
For some reason, it now seems very difficult to quit the notebook with 4.0.1.alpha: ^C2009-06-02 07:17:02-0500 [-] Saving notebook... ^C2009-06-02 07:20:20-0500 [-] Saving notebook... ^C^C ...usually I just have to wait a few seconds. -Marshall On Jun 1, 11:32 am, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello,

[sage-devel] Re: bug in plot3d?

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have given a positive review. I didn't do a huge amount of testing but it seems like a very straightforward patch. -Marshall On Jun 2, 3:34 am, William Cauchois wrote: > A fix is up at , and > needs a review! > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:51 AM

[sage-devel] Re: Release Management

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
Personally I would prefer that release coordination be done on sage- devel, rather than a seperate mailing list. But I am probably in a minority of how I interact with such things (I only read these on the web, not email for example). Maybe some day there could be a sage days devoted to releases

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got one failure on an intel mac (10.5): sage -t "devel/sage/sage/misc/html.py" ** File "/Users/mh/sagestuff/wsage3/devel/sage/sage/misc/html.py", line 157: sage: html.table([(i, j, i == j) for i in [0..1] for j in [0..1]])

[sage-devel] Re: sage blog aggregation : planet.sagemath.org

2009-06-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hey Minh, Thanks for working on planet sage! I think having it look better and including more blogs could be very beneficial for Sage. -Marshall On May 31, 5:38 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Harald, > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Harald Schilly > > wrote: > > > > > btw, i started a blog

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc2 released!

2009-05-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
All tests passed on an Ubuntu 8.10 machine. -Marshall On May 29, 4:47 pm, Jaap Spies wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hello, > > > Sage 4.0.rc2 has been released.  Assuming that nothing catastrophic > > happens, this will become 4.0.  The tarball can be > > found at > > >http://sage.math.washing

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc1 released!

2009-05-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had the same two numerical noise type failures in matrix2.pyx and expression.pyx, on an intel mac running 10.5. Those were the only failures. -M. Hampton On May 28, 6:04 am, Jaap Spies wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hello, > > > Sage 4.0.rc1 has been released. This should hopefully take ca

[sage-devel] Re: reviewing tickets

2009-05-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
I wonder if there could be an online mechanism for suggesting reviewers. Sometimes I look at a patch, and I think (for example) "I'm not sure I can review this well, but I bet X or Y could...". I don't want to "assign" them the ticket, since that seems overbearing. I know I would want to be info

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had all the same failures as John on my apple 10.5 laptop, except the graph_plot failure. This was from a fresh build, not an upgrade. -M. Hampton On May 21, 10:11 pm, John H Palmieri wrote: > On May 21, 7:14 am, mabshoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I gotta run to the airport, but sources and up

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