[sage-devel] Fwd: [NumPy] #1525: Numpy is ignoring CFLAGS, which makes a 64-bit build difficult

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
A two-year old Sage ticket added 64-bit OS X support for Numpy. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3186 But the method used was a bit brain-dead. A script with a hard-coded path to gcc was used, which had the -m64 flag. That was then copied and used as compiler. I've removed that file

[sage-devel] Anyone want to help port Sage to Solaris/OpenSolairs 64-bit ??

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Following Roberts huge effort to get a lot of .spkg updates into sage-4.5.0.alpha0, a 64-bit build of Sage on both Solaris 10 SPARC and OpenSolaris x64 does not look to be a distant dream any more. I think it will be close race between a Cygwin port and 64-bit Solaris or OpenSolaris port. Ther

[sage-devel] Re: [Numpy-discussion] Is numpy ignoring CFLAGS?

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/28/10 09:38 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On some 64-bit platforms, which include, but is not limited to: * Some version of OS X (I don't know what versions or processors) * Solaris on SPARC processors. * Solaris on x86 processors. * OpenSolaris on SP

[sage-devel] Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is there a test suite for Matplotlib ?

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/28/10 01:37 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: There is a set of nose tests installed in matplotlib.tests. It can be invoked with: import matplotlib matplotlib.test() or (from the commandline): nosetests matplotlib.tests Mike Thank you Mike. We don't have 'nosetests' as a part

[sage-devel] Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
A heads-up, Many Sage Developers are getting the following form-letter email... William -- Forwarded message -- From: Mary Nadar Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:23 AM Subject: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing! To: wst...@gmail.com Hi William, I am an author

[sage-devel] question about _sig_on _sig_off in cython code

2010-06-28 Thread luisfe
Hi, I have found an unhandled SIGFPE in number_field_element_quadratic as explained in ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9357 Basically, sage does not check if a quadratic algebraic number is zero when trying to invert it. I added a trivial patch that checks if the zero element is

[sage-devel] Sage 4.4.4 doctest failure on Mac PPC

2010-06-28 Thread kcrisman
I know there are not tons of PPC users still on these lists, but I wanted to ask whether they had seen something weird when testing sage/ interfaces/maxima.py. Namely, there is a guaranteed timeout (even with SAGE_TIMEOUT=1)! Previously I traced this to the functions which create the tab-comp

[sage-devel] frobby

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
Hi, I have moved Frobby from optional to experimental due to build issues that haven't been sufficiently addressed by any package maintainers over the past 2 months. I'll move it back when this problem is addressed. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8783 william -- William Stein Prof

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
Even if it is a form letter, I don't think Packt is a scam of any kind. They appear to be a real publisher. They focus on IT titles. They do have staff (usually hired from India, but with "impeccable" English) who work with the author over a series of revisions and through peer review, typesetting

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 28 Jun, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > As with all such things, beware you are dealing with the real people > and not some phoney. I see the links in the form letter don't direct > to the websites they say they do, but instead go via google. Not sure > what's up with that Maybe it's

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
I don't think it is a click-through. I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. Apart from the fact that the cover illustrations have nothing at all to do with the content, their books seem well-written. They publish a lot of titles and they offer them much cheaper if

[sage-devel] Re: Multivariate polynomial multiplication

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
I implemented the algorithm for multivariate poly multn. But it is in flint2, which won't be suitable for inclusion in Sage for some months (probably the end of the year). In the mean time, Sage uses Pari or Singular for multivariate poly multn, if I recall. There's not really anything you can do

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 28 Jun, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > I don't think it is a click-through. > > I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. I was only commenting on the trip through Google, not trying to get engaged in discussions about religion and politics. Justin -- Ju

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Volker Braun
On Jun 28, 9:49 pm, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > I was only commenting on the trip through Google, not trying to get engaged > in discussions about religion and politics. For the record, any url posted on google groups always redirects through google when you click on it. Wiliam posted a plain-te

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > I don't think it is a click-through. > > I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. > > Apart from the fact that the cover illustrations have nothing at all > to do with the content, their books seem well-written. They

[sage-devel] Got Fortran issues (R etc)? It is probably #9346

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Despite the title of #9346, I think that could potentially screw up on any platform. The updated package should hopefully fix it. Dave -- 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

[sage-devel] rpy2 can try to write outside SAGE_ROOT

2010-06-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I noticed this error message creating /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpy2 error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpy2': Permission denied whilst trying to build R. (See more below if you wish). The important thing is that it tried to write to directories where the system

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.4.4 doctest failure on Mac PPC

2010-06-28 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 28 Jun., 19:28, kcrisman wrote: > I know there are not tons of PPC users still on these lists, but I > wanted to ask whether they had seen something weird when testing sage/ > interfaces/maxima.py.  Namely, there is a guaranteed timeout (even > with SAGE_TIMEOUT=1)!  Previously I traced t

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
On 28 June, 22:21, Volker Braun wrote: > On Jun 28, 9:49 pm, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > > > I was only commenting on the trip through Google, not trying to get engaged > > in discussions about religion and politics. > > For the record, any url posted on google groups always redirects > throug

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > > On 28 June, 22:21, Volker Braun wrote: >> On Jun 28, 9:49 pm, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: >> >> > I was only commenting on the trip through Google, not trying to get >> > engaged in discussions about religion and politics. >> >> For the reco

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
On 28 June, 22:21, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > I don't think it is a click-through. > > > I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. > > > Apart from the fact that the cover illustrations have nothing at all > > to

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
On 28 June, 23:19, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > > On 28 June, 22:21, Volker Braun wrote: > >> On Jun 28, 9:49 pm, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > > >> > I was only commenting on the trip through Google, not trying to get > >> > engaged in discus

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > > On 28 June, 22:21, William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bill Hart >> wrote: >> > I don't think it is a click-through. >> >> > I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. >> >> > Apart from the

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
Then I don't understand. What do you mean by free? I don't see how anything at all about Springer exemplifies even a beginning of an understanding. They are to me the archetypal proprietary publisher... To contrast them to Packt well, OK, I can download your Springer book without paying for it

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Miller
sage-flame? On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > Then I don't understand. What do you mean by free? I don't see how > anything at all about Springer exemplifies even a beginning of an > understanding. They are to me the archetypal proprietary publisher... > > To contrast them to Pa

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
I'm pretty sure I was banned from posting there. On 29 June, 00:51, Robert Miller wrote: > sage-flame? > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > Then I don't understand. What do you mean by free? I don't see how > > anything at all about Springer exemplifies even a beg

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: William, Write a "Sagemath" Book for Packt Publishing!

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Hart
OK. I agree, I was over the top a bit. I removed my follow up to this, FWIW. I see you mean at least the information in the book is now "free", which is a good thing. Bill. On 29 June, 00:37, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > > On 28 June, 22:21, W

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.4.4 doctest failure on Mac PPC

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hansen
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > I remember that once Michael Abshoff had created some mechanism to > make the Sage/Maxima interface (i.e. the pexpect interface in general) > produce verbose output into some log files (via setting an enironment > variable?), but I didn't ge

[sage-devel] A bug in matrix conversion into Magma

2010-06-28 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi, On Sage 4.4.4, I have the following bug. sage: F.=GF(4) sage: m=matrix(2,[F(1),2,3,4]) sage: magma(m) --- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) ... TypeError: unable to coerce element

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Clickable OS X app for 4.4.4

2010-06-28 Thread Ivan Andrus
The promised binaries are up at http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/iandrus/ sage-4.4.4-i386-Darwin.dmg has the "old" application--the one that you can make with sage -bdist sage-deluxe-4.4.4-i386-Darwin.dmg has the "new" application--it should be nicer, but more experimental.

[sage-devel] Re: OpenSUSE source build failure

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:12 AM, caleb wrote: I've attached the output of gcc -v to the discussion, but I notice now that it was mentioned in some earlier discussion that gcc 4.1.0 was blacklisted. The version of gcc is the only difference that I notice between the cluster that complies Sage flawles

[sage-devel] Re: OpenSUSE source build failure

2010-06-28 Thread caleb miles
Yes, I believe so too, however, the latest version of gcc 4.5.0 causes a build error with R, so I'm compiling and testing an intermediate version , gcc-4.3.5. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Robert Bradshaw < rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:12 AM, caleb wrote: > > I

[sage-devel] moinmoin wiki deleting pages

2010-06-28 Thread William Stein
Hi, Does anybody have a clue why users accidentally randomly delete Moinmoin pages all the time? This is constantly happening to people at Sage Days 22, with all kinds of browsers, networks, etc. This is very weird. I couldn't find anything via a fast web search. We should either upgrade the w