[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
It seems to me that the argument "use the right OS" was quite often in discussions about Windows port, pointing out also that many people have an "old" computer where they can put Linux keeping Windows on the main one, if they are so addicted. Well, I never agreed with this approach. Windows is wi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: > On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: >> > In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ >> > made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you >> > really

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: > On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif wrote: >> On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif wrote: >> > > On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: >> > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> > >> > Hel

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:39 AM, leif wrote: > On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif wrote: >> > On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> >> >> > I propose to make Cephes (http://mos

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:46, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: > > > On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw > > wrote: > >> On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: > >>> In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main   > >>> tarball/ > >>> made prerequisites, suc

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
> that slope some, as cygwin is a "dependancy" (though one could imagine   > shipping a cygwin+sage binary that just requires double clicking and   > installs like any other standard MS app). I believe that the plan is to offer that as an option (and maybe it used to be one), correct? - kcrisman

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you really need them. One of

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: > > In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ > > made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you > > really need them. > > One of the points of Sage was that you d

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:00, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: There are other alternatives. Such as? * As I said above, incorporate it into Cygwin. * Provide an optional spkg. * Provide (it with) Cygwin or a "patch"

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:00, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: > There are other alternatives. > > >>> Such as? > > >> * As I said above, incorporate it into Cygwin. > > >> * Provide an optional spkg. > > >> * Provide (it with) Cygwin or a "patch" to Cygwin. > > >> * Ru

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: Hello, I propose to make Cephes (http

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif wrote: > On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif wrote: > > > On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: > > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > >> > Hello, > > > >> > I propose to make Cephes (http://moshier.n

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wrote: > On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif wrote: > > On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > >> > Hello, > > >> > I propose to make Cephes (http://moshier.net/and > >> >http://www.netlib.org/cephes/) a sta

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hello, > > > I propose to make Cephes (http://moshier.net/and > >http://www.netlib.org/cephes/) a standard SPKG in Sage.  In order to > > complete the Cygwin port on Windows, we need support for c99 c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM, David Joyner wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout >> wrote: >>> On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? >> >> It's included in Debian as GPL -- we c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: >>> >>> Is license info available? >>> > > It's included in Debian as GPL -- we can just obtain a copy from them.  See > > http://www.mail-archiv

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread Mike Hansen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> Is license info available? >> It's included in Debian as GPL -- we can just obtain a copy from them. See http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-clo...@lists.debian.org/msg165325.html --Mike --

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> Is license info available? >> > > According to http://www.netlib.org/cephes/readme > > >   Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and > Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Pre

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? According to http://www.netlib.org/cephes/readme Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall or Simon & Schuster International, 1989) or from the Ceph