[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, William Stein wrote: >> I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", >> which is number 1 on my wish-list. > > That day should be very soon, I hope. (Tim Abbott -- any updates on the > status of this?) All the dependencies are now in Debian, but th

[sage-devel] Debian Sage status

2008-07-25 Thread Timothy G Abbott
The Sage package is coming along. It passes the vast majority of tests, and is usable on the command line or via the notebook. However, there are still various issues. The worst is the LinBox problem I described earlier involving sage.matrix.matrix_integer_dense.Matrix_integer_dense._charpol

[sage-devel] Re: Status of Sage for Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, mabshoff wrote: > > On Jul 21, 7:44 pm, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1) Sage 3.0.4 or 3.0.5 built with polybori 0.5rc fails to find >> m4ri_build_all_codes and m4ri_destroy_all_codes.  This is discussed in >> <http://trac.s

[sage-devel] Status of Sage for Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Timothy G Abbott
I figured I'd give everyone an update on how things are going with the Sage packages. I believe (but am not certain) that all of the Sage dependencies that I want to get into Lenny will make it, though I'm still waiting on final review for 5 of them that had copyright problems in the past. O

[sage-devel] Re: Draft Sage description for Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, William Stein wrote: > I do not like to call Sage a "computer algebra" system. I prefer to call > it "mathematical software". I don't like the term "computer algebra" since > it suggests sage is only for "computer *algebra*", whereas Sage is for > much more than just algebra.

[sage-devel] Trivial problems in the sage 3.0.5 distribution

2008-07-20 Thread Timothy G Abbott
Below I list a large number of trivial problems in the Sage 3.0.5 distribution tarball that the Debian automatic package checking tools detected. None of the problems below have any functional effect, they're just things that are likely mistakes and are probably worth correcting. If desired,

[sage-devel] Re: Draft Sage description for Debian

2008-07-20 Thread Timothy G Abbott
There is a "sage" source package, which builds the library packages libsage2 and libsage-dev. In theory, I could try to be sneaky and take "sage" as the binary package with "sagemath" as the source package name, but I suspect I would not get away with it. -Tim Abbott On Sun, 20 Jul 2

[sage-devel] Debian packaging status update

2008-06-04 Thread Timothy G Abbott
The first bunch of SAGE dependencies entered the Debian NEW queue (the queue of packages waiting for review from the Debian ftpmasters before they are uploaded to Debian unstable) tonight; by tomorrow I expect that that the remaining SAGE dependencies will enter the Debian NEW queue. I am thus

[sage-devel] http://wiki.sagemath.org/ seems broken

2008-05-07 Thread Timothy G Abbott
When I try to connect to http://wiki.sagemath.org/ from various IP addresses, I get the following error: "Warning: You triggered the wiki's surge protection by doing too many requests in a short time. Please make a short break reading the stuff you already got. When you restart doing requests

[sage-devel] Questions about various spkgs

2008-05-07 Thread Timothy G Abbott
I'm working on getting several of the SAGE dependencies not already in Debian maintained in the main Debian archive. I had a few questions about the future of some spkgs: I've heard rumor that linbox_wrap might be being merged into mainline linbox at some time in the near future. If this is

[sage-devel] Debian package build failure for gfan with 3.0.1alpha1

2008-05-02 Thread Timothy G Abbott
I attempted to build the 3.0.1alpha1 packages for Debian, but it doesn't build, apparently due to some type errors. The build log is attached -- I'd appreciate any guesses as to what's going on here. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group

[sage-devel] SAGE 3.0alpha6 Debian package issues

2008-04-26 Thread Timothy G Abbott
I seem to have two major problems with my SAGE 3.0alpha6 Debian packages. One seems to be difficulty finding the expanded executable for singular, and the other seems to be a double free somewhere in linbox. Do either of these sound familiar? -Tim Abbott // ***dError: Bug reported: Co

[sage-devel] cython problems

2008-04-25 Thread Timothy G Abbott
Hello, I'm working on building SAGE 3.0 for Debian, but ran into a cython problem (error message below): I'm guessing the problem is Debian has cython 0.9.6.12 and I need running 0.9.6.13.1. Confirmation of this would be useful. -Tim Abbott Building sage/misc/cython_c.c because it

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate factoring - use maxima ?

2008-03-31 Thread Timothy G Abbott
Since the Debian distribution of SAGE uses Maxima with GCL list, I figured I'd run the benchmarks Mike posted on my installation. The SAGE times are comparable to those in Mike's test, while the Maxima tests are faster: sage: load /home/tabbott/fermat_gcd_1var.py sage: time a = p1.gcd(p2, algo

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest failures for Debian SAGE packages

2008-03-31 Thread Timothy G Abbott
, -1, 1, 1], [0, -1, 1, 2], [0, -1, 1, 3], [0, -1, 1, 4], [0, -1, 1, 5], [0, -1, 1, 6], [0, -1, 1, 7], [0, -1, 1, 8], [0, -1, 1, 9], [0, -1, 1, 10]] ** Any ideas? -Tim Abbott On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrot

[sage-devel] Re: Running doctests on multiuser systems

2008-03-31 Thread Timothy G Abbott
hat are currently running. I think the type (2) errors are bugs in the doctests (it's certainly a bad documentation example if it only works from that directory), and once my current doctest run finishes I'll submit patches for them. -Tim Abbott On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, mabs

[sage-devel] Running doctests on multiuser systems

2008-03-30 Thread Timothy G Abbott
In running doctests with my Debian installation of SAGE (where SAGE_ROOT is set to /usr/lib/sagemath), it's been annoying that one needs to run the tests as root so that SAGE can write to - $SAGE_ROOT/tmp/test.log - .doctest_filename.py in various directories of the SAGE install - the directory

[sage-devel] Doctest failures for Debian SAGE packages

2008-03-30 Thread Timothy G Abbott
The set of Debian packages for SAGE 2.10.4 that I just announced do not pass all doctests. Some known problems include: - the scipy_sandbox is not installed (so delaunay.py won't load) - jmol is not installed - a few GAP packages are not available in Debian's GAP. - PARI in Debian has the ma

[sage-devel] Debian packages for SAGE 2.10.4

2008-03-30 Thread Timothy G Abbott
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a working set of Debian packages for SAGE 2.10.4. The dependencies of SAGE that are not already in Debian have their own Debian packages that install into /usr, and the SAGE package is uses these separately packaged dependencies (SAGE itself lives i