[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Nick, well, I found this particular figure of speech ("the people...") quite disturbing; perhaps cause it reminded me of Soviet Union, where I grew up, or perhaps because it is (over)used by American politicians... It just could be that Dave snapped for a similar reason (although I cannot read his

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: So sage built, but it may or may not work. And you're building it on another machine, but it may or not build. What was the point of this post? Thanks for clarifying. So apparently you feel David should have waited to post something (hop

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: William Stein wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I started a build of Sage 4.3.4.rc0 on 't2' and one of my own SPARCs. The build on

Re: [sage-devel] how to set up a private sage server for a small group

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 at 12:41AM -0400, Franco Saliola wrote: > I want to set up a private notebook server for a small group of > people, but the documentation for notebook? does not contain any > examples for configuring such a server. It also points to a wiki page > [1], which doesn't have the info

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 at 12:56AM -0700, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: [...] > >Yes. This post contains nothing "actionable". > > Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-release; all 1000+ > subscribers to sage-devel don't need to know every tim

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 at 12:56AM -0700, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > [...] >> >Yes.  This post contains nothing "actionable". >> >> Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-release; all 1000

[sage-devel] Re: hmm.[tab] = hidden markov models

2010-03-18 Thread mhampton
I use it in teaching bioinformatics. Are you going to keep the interface the same? -Marshall On Mar 17, 11:38 pm, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious if anybody reading this uses the Hidden Markov Models > (HMM) code in Sage for anything.  If so, send me an email, since I'm > working on

[sage-devel] Build failure on 4.3.4.rc0: 32/64 bit issue?

2010-03-18 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
Alert readers of sage-devel and sage-release may know that since 4.3.4.alpha0, I haven't been able to compile sage on my somewhat eccentric Fedora 10 system. It's a 64-bit system with 64-bit compilers and such under /usr/lib, but it's on a network with mostly 32-bit machines and their compilers are

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released

2010-03-18 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
I only noticed after starting this separate thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/t/4f67007cbdd9e1e that Jaap's problem looks the same as mine (since 4.3.4.alpha0), although I can't guarantee that fixing one will fix the other. Kiran On Mar 17, 1:46 pm, Jaap Spies wrote: > Minh Ngu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
On Mar 18, 3:56 am, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-release; all 1000+   > subscribers to sage-devel don't need to know every time Sage alpha X   > builds or brakes on system Y. (Of course, these replies are invaluable   > for the release manager, so I don'

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
On Mar 18, 5:01 am, William Stein wrote: > I have been receiving regular off list complaints from people that > there are too many Solaris posts (as explained above).  It is only > natural to create: > >    * sage-solaris:     the primary list for Solaris porting discussion. > > ... > > Of course

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread John Cremona
On 18 March 2010 12:20, Kiran Kedlaya wrote: > On Mar 18, 5:01 am, William Stein wrote: >> I have been receiving regular off list complaints from people that >> there are too many Solaris posts (as explained above).  It is only >> natural to create: >> >>    * sage-solaris:     the primary list f

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Simon King
Hi! On Mar 18, 12:25 pm, John Cremona wrote: > > I think David may be quitting because he feels marginalized by a > > substantial segment of the Sage development community, which has been > > expressing its antipathy towards discussion of the Solaris port by > > complaining previously off-list, n

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread mhampton
I completely agree with Kiran's points. Personally I hate getting list emails, so I read all the sage groups on a browser. A proliferation of groups makes it harder for me to keep up - for example, I would probably pay more attention to notebook development issues if they were on sage-devel. I

[sage-devel] Re: Build failure on 4.3.4.rc0: 32/64 bit issue?

2010-03-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Kiran, it should be possible by simply setting PATH appropriately to make all the unwanted /usr/local stuff invisible. Did you try doing this? (assuming you use bash as the shell, you can do > PATH=whatever_stuff_you_need > export PATH ) A similar problem arises on MacOSX, when one has some extra t

[sage-devel] Re: univariate polynomial gcd is slow forn number fields

2010-03-18 Thread luisfe
On 17 mar, 10:13, John Cremona wrote: > For an example of how polynomials over number fields are converted > into pari polynomials, see > sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_element.pyx, in the factor function. > This is the code already used to factor polynomials over number fields > by converting

[sage-devel] Re: univariate polynomial gcd is slow forn number fields

2010-03-18 Thread luisfe
> sage: f1 = pari([i._pari_('y') for i in f.list()]).Pol() well, this is use Polrev() -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://grou

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread ggrafendorfer
> Of course only David can speak for his own motives, but do you really > think David is quitting because of me creating a sage-solaris mailing > list? William, As far as I can judge the situation, its not what you doing, but the way you are doing it what makes him quit (if he does so), it would

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:13 AM, Kiran Kedlaya wrote: On Mar 18, 3:56 am, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-release; all 1000+ subscribers to sage-devel don't need to know every time Sage alpha X builds or brakes on system Y. (Of course, these replies are inv

[sage-devel] Re: HMM

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
2010/3/18 alex : > Hi William, > >> I'm curious if anybody reading this uses the Hidden Markov Models >> (HMM) code in Sage for anything.  If so, send me an email, since I'm >> working on 100% replacing it by some brand new better quality code. > > I have not used HMM code in Sage for anything, but

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released

2010-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 17 Mrz., 19:37, John Cremona wrote: > On 17 March 2010 09:23, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > This release candidate cleans up warnings resulting from building the > > Sage documentation. If there are no show stoppers, then this release > > is considered the final release candidate.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: hmm.[tab] = hidden markov models

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
2010/3/18 mhampton : > I use it in teaching bioinformatics.  Are you going to keep the > interface the same? Yes, but with a couple of minor improvements. E.g., instead of the emission distributions being specified in some ad-hoc way, they will be Python classes, which will make them easier to de

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released

2010-03-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mar 17, 10:23 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > 4.3.4rc0 builds fine on intel core2 duo, ubuntu 9.04 + all tests pass but it only builds on atom n270, ubuntu 9.10! some doctests fail and i have the feeling that something didn't compile. maybe you can tell me what to trigger for recompilation or find so

[sage-devel] NTL-5.5.2 and gf2x

2010-03-18 Thread YannLC
Hi, I would like to work on two tickets: #5731 (Update NTL to 5.5.2 release) and #2114 (get gf2x into Sage!). As already reported in the discussion for #2114, the easiest way to add gf2x is just to install it first, and then add an option to the ./ configure script of NTL. If have some spkgs ava

[sage-devel] Re: Build failure on 4.3.4.rc0: 32/64 bit issue?

2010-03-18 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
A good suggestion, but it doesn't help in this case. This may be a Fedora issue rather than a 32/64 bit issue, since Jaap Spies had similar trouble. There seems to be a configuration issue. The spkg runs the config script with the options --- ./configure --prefix=/scratch/sage-4.3.4.rc0/local --wi

[sage-devel] ZZ and QQ, p-adic valuations

2010-03-18 Thread Robert Miller
Does anyone see a reason why there should be two function names? sage: QQ(7).valuation(7) 1 sage: ZZ(7).ord(7) 1 Any opinions on which is better? I myself use N.ord(p) a lot, and I was surprised that I hadn't run across this before. -- Robert L. Miller http://www.rlmiller.org/ -- To post to t

Re: [sage-devel] improvements to FEMhub with regards to Sage

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
2010/2/22 Ondrej Certik : > Hi, > > some FEMhub users are confused by seeing the name "Sage" in > warnings and error messages, and in various installation scripts > and messages. They are there because FEMhub uses some > functionality of Sage (as Ubuntu uses some functionality of > Debian). However

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
ggrafendorfer wrote: Of course only David can speak for his own motives, but do you really think David is quitting because of me creating a sage-solaris mailing list? William, As far as I can judge the situation, its not what you doing, but the way you are doing it what makes him quit (if he d

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
mhampton wrote: It does seem unnecessarily marginalizing to make a sage-solaris group. -Marshall Thank you Marshall. I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling this. I'm surprised how many people do share my view, even if they are not keen Solaris users themselves. -- To post to this group, send a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 at 12:56AM -0700, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: [...] Yes. This post contains nothing "actionable". Actually, I think all such posts belong on sage-releas

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John Cremona wrote: On 18 March 2010 12:20, Kiran Kedlaya wrote: I think David may be quitting because he feels marginalized by a substantial segment of the Sage development community, which has been expressing its antipathy towards discussion of the Solaris port by complaining previously off-l

Re: [sage-devel] NTL-5.5.2 and gf2x

2010-03-18 Thread François Bissey
> Hi, > > I would like to work on two tickets: #5731 (Update NTL to 5.5.2 > release) and #2114 (get gf2x into Sage!). > > As already reported in the discussion for #2114, the easiest way to > add gf2x is just to install it first, and then add an option to the ./ > configure script of NTL. If hav

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jason Grout wrote: Thanks for clarifying. So apparently you feel David should have waited to post something (hopefully!) like: "Sage built on Solaris SPARC and doctests passed." or at least "no new doctest failures happened"? Thanks, Jason For your information, $ make testlong ends wit

[sage-devel] Re: iconv trouble? (was: Build failure on 4.3.4.rc0: 32/64 bit issue?)

2010-03-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I tried to update to 4.3.4.rc0 on MacOSX 10.5 PPC (G4) It has built, but then it won't start: --- ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) [...] /usr/local/src/sage/sage-4.3.4.rc0/local/lib/p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > For your information, > > $ make testlong > > ends with: > > sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/__init__.py" >         [0.3 s] > sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/constants_c.pyx" >         [11.9 s] > sage -t  -long "devel/sa

[sage-devel] proposal: standard command-line options in Sage

2010-03-18 Thread John H Palmieri
Sage uses non-standard command-line options (e.g., -notebook rather than --notebook). I propose that we switch to standard ones. Here are two reasons: 1. They're standard, and standards are good. People used to Unix-type systems will expect our options to work this way. I think if we decide to co

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Dr David Kirkby
On Mar 19, 3:22 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > > > > wrote: > > For your information, > > > $ make testlong > > > ends with: > > > sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/__init__.py" > >         [0.3 s] > > sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/symboli

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released

2010-03-18 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Mar 17, 2010, at 02:23 , Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, This release candidate cleans up warnings resulting from building the Sage documentation. If there are no show stoppers, then this release is considered the final release candidate. Source tarball: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/

[sage-devel] f95 in cvxopt --- still needed?

2010-03-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I am preparing cvxopt-1.1.2 spkg upgrade, and see that the current cvxopt (0.9) has some special hooks to work with f95. Can these be ignored and removed now, as gfortran is there anyway? If not, please tell me how (and where --- if it's not possible under usual Linux, or, as a last resort, MacOSX

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: standard command-line options in Sage

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > Sage uses non-standard command-line options (e.g., -notebook rather > than --notebook). I propose that we switch to standard ones. Here are > two reasons: > > 1. They're standard, and standards are good. People used to Unix-type > systems

Re: [sage-devel] f95 in cvxopt --- still needed?

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
2010/3/18 Dima Pasechnik : > I am preparing cvxopt-1.1.2 spkg upgrade, and see that the current > cvxopt (0.9) has some special hooks to work with f95. > Can these be ignored and removed now, as gfortran is there anyway? On some platforms g95 is still installed, though not for most. E.g., I just

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread William Stein
2010/3/18 Dr. David Kirkby : > > I explained my motives. Whether you wish to believe them or not is up to you. > It is not just the list, but what I perceive as an indifference towards > Solaris from you on the public side, then a private side telling me how > important it is for Sage to run on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 builds ok on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-03-18 Thread Craig Citro
Hi David, As one of the people William mentioned who'd complained about the volume of Solaris email on sage-devel, I thought I should weigh in. For reference, I actually stopped getting email from sage-devel and switched to reading on the web because I felt like I couldn't handle the volume. Mind