Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:04:51PM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 05/22/2013 06:58 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > >An answer is that graphviz is often already installed on the system. > Really? Are there any Linux distributions which come with graphviz > installed? Most likely not on a vanilla

Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:58:56 AM UTC-7, Nicolas M. ThiƩry wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:13:09AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > > A standard package which is only useful in the presence of an > optional > > package doesn't make sense to me. > > It simplifies our users's life,

Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 05/22/2013 06:58 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: An answer is that graphviz is often already installed on the system. Really? Are there any Linux distributions which come with graphviz installed? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group.

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:39:36AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > I installed the dot2tex package on https://cloud.sagemath.com, but > when I try to actually use it with this example: > > g = sage.categories.category.category_graph() > g.set_latex_options(format="dot2tex") > view(g, pdflatex=True,

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:13:09AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: >> A standard package which is only useful in the presence of an optional >> package doesn't make sense to me. > > It simplifies our users's life, and that is useful! Als

Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:13:09AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > A standard package which is only useful in the presence of an optional > package doesn't make sense to me. It simplifies our users's life, and that is useful! Also it simplifies *my* life: I am tired, e.g. during Sage Days, of h

Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread kcrisman
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:55:12 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 05/22/2013 04:32 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > > - [X] No, keep it as optional > > A standard package which is only useful in the presence of an optional > package doesn't make sense to me. > > And I fail to see why i

Re: [sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 05/22/2013 04:32 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: - [X] No, keep it as optional A standard package which is only useful in the presence of an optional package doesn't make sense to me. And I fail to see why installing both graphviz and dot2tex is more difficult than just installing dot2tex (

[sage-devel] poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Sage developers, This is a poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg. - [ ] Yes, make dot2tex a standard spkg - [ ] No, keep it as optional Description of dot2tex -- dot2tex [1] is a small pure python module (5000 lines), whose purpose is to give graphs generated