[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-11 Thread Hamptonio
Oops, I am in the middle of giving the gcc-4.2.1 package a try. I hope I am using it correctly - I installed it, and then removed everything from spkg/installed, and now I am recompiliing by using "make". Will that rebuild with gcc-4.2.1? It looks like it from what I can see during compilation.

[sage-devel] Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Hamptonio
Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an early alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I thought that might be worth pointing out now so folks can take a look and get used to it early. The final release is tentatively scheduled for late 2008: htt

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Jaap Spies
Hamptonio wrote: > Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an early > alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I > thought that might be worth pointing out now so folks can take a look > and get used to it early. The final release is tentatively sche

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-11 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 11, 2:07 pm, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops, I am in the middle of giving the gcc-4.2.1 package a try. I > hope I am using it correctly - I installed it, and then removed > everything from spkg/installed, and now I am recompiliing by using > "make". Will that rebuild with g

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 11, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > > Hamptonio wrote: >> Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an early >> alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I >> thought that might be worth pointing out now so folks can take a look >> and get

[sage-devel] Re: compiling on AIX/PowerPPC

2007-09-11 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 11, 3:09 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2:07 pm, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but this is slightly wrong but causes bad consequences: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/64:$SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/: > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH" && export LD_L

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 11, 3:11 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > > > > > > > Hamptonio wrote: > >> Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an early > >> alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I > >> th

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread mabshoff
> The fix shouldn't be obvious Logic all wrong, the fix is obvious and I meant to write that, it is "print string" no longer working, but now we need print(string) Anyway, the problem now is in distutils: setup(name="gdmodule", version=this_version, description="GD Package", long_desc

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
> object : SyntaxError('invalid syntax', ('/tmp/Work2/sage-2.8.4- > python3k/local/lib/python/distutils/core.py', 113, 31, 'except > DistutilsSetupError, msg:\n')) > type: SyntaxError > refcount: 4 > address : 0x9594e0 > lost sys.stderr > [4701 refs] > Failure to build gdmodule I think "

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bug Day 3, upcoming releases and trac organization

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/10/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 2.9 milestone seems to be very optimistic, especially without > some concentrated effort to close a lot of tickets, i.e. a bug day. > There are several possible days, whether we make this official or > not. I would prefer the 20th or the 22nd S

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bug Day 3, upcoming releases and trac organization

2007-09-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, William Stein wrote: > On 9/10/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 2.9 milestone seems to be very optimistic, especially without > > some concentrated effort to close a lot of tickets, i.e. a bug day. > > There are several possible days, whether we make t

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > > supply fixes upstream if we decide to do so. Overall we have plenty of > time for the switch because 2.x will be maintained in parallel with > 3.x for at least two years. And because we build from sources we can > pretty much switch any time we want. I would be willing to mai

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bug Day 3, upcoming releases and trac organization

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Miller
Either of the 20th or 21st works for me, but not the 22nd. On Sep 11, 9:08 am, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2007, William Stein wrote: > > > On 9/10/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The 2.9 milestone seems to be very optimistic, especially wi

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.4.1 -- minor bugfix release

2007-09-11 Thread Pablo De Napoli
On 9/11/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/9/07, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But "sage -t" reports lots of errors, and spent an hour or two in > > > > sage -t devel/doc-2.8.4.1/ref/sage.misc.trace.tex > > > > before I killed it. If these errors are surpris

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 11, 2007, at 6:11 AM, David Harvey wrote: > On Sep 11, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > >> >> Hamptonio wrote: >>> Many of you are probably already aware of this, but there is an >>> early >>> alpha release of python 3000 that came out a couple of weeks ago. I >>> thought that migh

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread David Harvey
On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> What I'm more worried about is cython compatibility, especially if >> python internals have changed a lot. > > Me too... It looks like 2.x is going to be around for a while though, > so we'll hopefully have time to transition. I'm not lookin

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread Jaap Spies
David Harvey wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >>> What I'm more worried about is cython compatibility, especially if >>> python internals have changed a lot. >> Me too... It looks like 2.x is going to be around for a while though, >> so we'll hopefully have time t

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:25 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Sep 10, 4:17 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 10 September 2007 18:21, Pablo De Napoli wrote: >> >>> I could not read your modification to my patch since you've uploaded >>> that as an hg bundle. I think that for trac t

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2007 18:15, David Harvey wrote: >>> The binomial function then gets a prefix something like: >>> >>> try: >>> call_fast_integer_function( x, m, _binomial_raw ) >>> except CoercionError: >>> # compute binomial sl

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3000 (aka 3.0)

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I thought about this a bit more, and now I'm starting to think > > it's not going to be *too* bad. There's a lot of existing C code out > > there that uses the Python C API, and I doubt that python 3000 is > > going to totally break all th

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would say that bundles are better than a number of patches that have > > to be applied manually one after the other. It is more painful to > > learn how to use bundles (I can tell because I still am not 100% on > > the finer points of me

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:18 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 9/11/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I would say that bundles are better than a number of patches that >>> have >>> to be applied manually one after the other. It is more painful to >>> learn how to use bundles (I can t

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I very often do this: > > > > 1. Apply the bundle to some branch of my repository, and merge it in. > > But I *do not* check in the merge. > > > > 2. I browse the changes, build them, try them out, etc. > > > > 3. If I like the result I ch

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3. If I like the result I check it in. If not, I just do > > > hg_sage.rollback() > > > hg_sage.revert('--all') > > > and it is as if I never applied the bundle. > > > > Me too. It would be nice to be able to browse "into" bundl

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:30, William Stein wrote: > > We should check first with the trac project / mailing list to see what > > new tricks they have up their sleeve at this point . They must get > > this question all the time... > > By trac I actually mean the Mercurial project.Thoug

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread boothby
I don't know why I haven't seen this before: hg_sage.inspect("...", options="-p") where ... can be the path / url of a patch / bundle / repository. It would seem that if there's a mercurial widget for trac, this feature may be added rather easily (if nonexistant). On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Will

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why I haven't seen this before: > > hg_sage.inspect("...", options="-p") > > where ... can be the path / url of a patch / bundle / repository. It would > seem that if there's a mercurial widget for trac, this feature may be

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread boothby
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't know why I haven't seen this before: >> >> hg_sage.inspect("...", options="-p") >> >> where ... can be the path / url of a patch / bundle / repository. It would >> seem that if t

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> I don't know why I haven't seen this before: >>> >>> hg_sage.inspect("...", options="-p") >>> >>> where ... can be the path /

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, William Stein wrote: > > > > On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know why I haven't seen this before: > >> > >> hg_sage.inspect("...", options="-p") > >> > >> where ... can be the path

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread boothby
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > Nice. One issue is that it seems it only operates within the context > of a given repository, i.e. I can't inspect random .hg files. Does > anyone know whether this is a limitation of inspect, or of the .hg > bundle itself? According to the docs, an

[sage-devel] Re: integer fast-paths for simple arithmetic functions

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >> Nice. One issue is that it seems it only operates within the context >> of a given repository, i.e. I can't inspect random .hg files. Does >> anyone know whether this is a limitation of inspe