Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-04-01 Thread Francois Bissey
An idea that may be on the constructive side. John could you convince/help Micheal to upload his current code in a hg repo on google code like you did with eclib? Rather than whining we could contribute and take a snapshot when it is satisfactory. Francois This email may be confidential and subje

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread John Cremona
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Francois Bissey wrote: > I'll certainly commiserate with him being busy with his new baby (got a new > one of my own on Monday, they are demanding little thing, let's not mention > the students...) Congratulations! John -- To post to this group, send an email t

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Francois Bissey
> On 03/31/11 05:22 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > >As Dave Kirby remarked, > > > > right now it compiles on a couple of gcc releases and essentially no > > other compiler. And thats hardly a surprise if you look at the code. At > > the very least the endless compiler warnings need to be looked at / > >

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread John Cremona
Some things to take into account: Mike is certainly very busy now. (In the last half hour I have been receiving alternate emails from him, and from sage-devel about lcalc!).He is (co-)running the current semester at MSRI on Arithmetic Statistics (other organisers including me, and William). H

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/31/11 05:22 PM, Volker Braun wrote: As Dave Kirby remarked, right now it compiles on a couple of gcc releases and essentially no other compiler. And thats hardly a surprise if you look at the code. At the very least the endless compiler warnings need to be looked at / fixed. Micheal did

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:08:35 PM UTC-4, robertwb wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Volker Braun > wrote: > > Is anybody working on either removing lcalc or getting its code up to > > reasonable quality? > > Is it not giving you the right answers anymore? > In fact, it does not gi

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread John Cremona
If it would help at all he (Mike R) is in the office 3 doors down from me right now at MSRI. But I would not like to forward any emails to him which were not a lot more polite. John On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Volker Braun wrote:

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > Is anybody working on either removing lcalc or getting its code up to > reasonable quality? Is it not giving you the right answers anymore? > Does anybody know the upstream author? Yes, several of us. > The lcalc spkg > recently broke on g

Re: [sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-03-31 18:22, Volker Braun wrote: > Is anybody working on either removing lcalc or getting its code up to > reasonable quality? Does anybody know the upstream author? The lcalc > spkg recently broke on gcc-4.6 essentially due to this: > > #define double(x) (double)(lcalc_to_double(x)) > >

[sage-devel] lcalc code quality

2011-03-31 Thread Volker Braun
Is anybody working on either removing lcalc or getting its code up to reasonable quality? Does anybody know the upstream author? The lcalc spkg recently broke on gcc-4.6 essentially due to this: #define double(x) (double)(lcalc_to_double(x)) I mean, WTF? Does anybody believe that you can safel