Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-08 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-06-08 10:32, mmarco wrote: Would it work just to create a temporary directory through the tempfile module? These are datafiles which are meant to be persistent. So I think that ~/.sympow (or $DOT_SAGE/sympow) would be better choices. -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-08 Thread mmarco
Would it work just to create a temporary directory through the tempfile module? El miércoles, 8 de junio de 2016, 6:38:34 (UTC+2), François escribió: > > > > On 8/06/2016, at 10:14, William Stein > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey > > > wrote: > >> The version

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-08 Thread Francois Bissey
> On 8/06/2016, at 19:52, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2016-06-08 00:14, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey >> wrote: >>> The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to explicitly >>> write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed y

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-08 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-06-08 00:14, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey wrote: The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to explicitly write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed you make a system wide install where the user cannot write it will

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread Francois Bissey
> On 8/06/2016, at 10:14, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey > wrote: >> The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to explicitly >> write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed you make a system >> wide install where the user c

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey wrote: > The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to explicitly > write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed you make a system > wide install where the user cannot write it will certainly fail. This is indeed exactly

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread Francois Bissey
The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to explicitly write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed you make a system wide install where the user cannot write it will certainly fail. I don’t remember if I or Christopher did the hack or if we lifted it from a debian

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread John Cremona
I have been wondering why the LMFDB, which builds on Sage, has its own version of sympow. (It's what allows web pages like http://www.lmfdb.org/L/SymmetricPower/3/EllipticCurve/Q/11.a/ to appear). That code was written by Mark himself, but I don't know why he moved the two files in https://github

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-06-07 16:10, William Stein wrote: I do have to wonder why this isn't tested. I think that it's not tested because it writes data files in $SAGE_ROOT. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and sto

[sage-devel] proposal: possibly remove Watkins Sympow from Sage

2016-06-07 Thread William Stein
Hi, Long ago in 2006, I put Mark Watkins amazing C program "sympow" in Sage: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/lfunctions/sage/lfunctions/sympow.html In case you're not a number theorist, this program computes values of generating functions attached to symmetric power representation