[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-09 Thread kcrisman
s gcc 4.2 (as opposed to 4.0.1, which is usually the last supported one on Tiger), SDK, and gfortran. Then one has to create symlinks... yuck. Or we could just provide gcc for PPC Tiger along with gfortran... this seems weird. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to s

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-09 Thread kcrisman
ould apparently work with Xcode 2.5... Sorry for all the activity on this. My interest on this is not related to drkirkby's (legitimate) concerns, but is related to #9808. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-09 Thread kcrisman
pply it. > So Sage is definitely moving away from g95. True. > I just think we should remove the odd code (much of it rather ugly, > often written in perl), which makes a distinction between gfortran and > g95. It would be nice if we could find a binary for gfortran for the particular s

[sage-devel] Re: New PARI needs testing

2010-09-09 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 9, 12:40 pm, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2010-09-09 14:48, kcrisman wrote:> sage: > > Exiting Sage (CPU time 0m0.28s, Wall time 0m3.25s). > > Exiting spawned GP/PARI interpreter process. > > > Note the last line.  This is repeatable.  Do we really want this?

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-09 Thread kcrisman
;s why you don't have G95 showing up, since you didn't use Sage's provided binary to start with. - kcrisman -- 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 o

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-10 Thread kcrisman
be rendered moot if the current discussion on #9808 proves fruitful; then drkirkby can at the very least remove references to G95 that have nothing to do with Darwin. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, s

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-10 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 10, 9:34 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Sep 10, 8:53 pm, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Sep 10, 2:36 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > After some trial and error, I came > > > acrosshttp://r.research.att.com/tools/#gcc42 > > > I mentioned this lin

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-10 Thread kcrisman
specific setup (if g95 is kept). Understood; I'm not trying to make extra work for you, just to keep a viable platform going. - kcrisman -- 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...@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-10 Thread kcrisman
anging how we support a particular platform probably deserves more discussion than its received on this thread, so for now I'll wait to see if it worked for you to use this toolkit to build Sage successfully (e.g. 4.6.alpha0) and then maybe I'll take a leap on *one* of my 10.4 boxes to see

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-10 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 10, 2:31 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Sep 11, 1:31 am, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > > Buthttp://r.research.att.com/tools/#gcc42provideshttp://r.research.att.c... > > > which will do the installation of "10.4u", whatever this means, >

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-11 Thread kcrisman
as Dima demonstrates, with OS X 10.4, somehow this is not so easy to remove. Interestingly, he gets stuck at Scipy apparently because of numpy, which is also the problem on one of the tickets in question (though for a newer versino of each of those). - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists?

2010-09-11 Thread kcrisman
rtran seems to be > working fine. So once I have some time, I'll try to rework the > fortran.spkg package for femhub to install the above fortran binary > and see if I can compile everything with it. Please read earlier in this thread for what the issues are with this.

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists? - patches posted!

2010-09-13 Thread kcrisman
symlinks. But as I have time this week I will try to figure out what I could do from this standpoint. - kcrisman -- 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 t

[sage-devel] Re: g95 - can we simply forget it exists? - patches posted!

2010-09-14 Thread kcrisman
t that 10.4-specific bundle (10.4u) does include > gcc4.2 and g++42 as well as gfortran42. > So it is all there waiting to be installed, simultaneously with > gfortran42 Right - the first comment made it sound like you had changed your mind about that :) I'll try this sometime this wee

[sage-devel] Re: Cliquer - upstream modifications and dubious code

2010-09-14 Thread kcrisman
#x27;t important. So no disparaging remarks needed about that sort of thing either. Otherwise, please move this thread to sage-flame - if only out of self- interest. Potential developers will read this, and the tone (not facts, which are not at issue) may help them decide to move on. Thanks, -

[sage-devel] Possible additional info needed in developer guide?

2010-09-16 Thread kcrisman
kground to know that there even *exists* non-portable shell code, but still want to help review/write such code in easy cases. Thanks! - kcrisman -- 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...@googl

[sage-devel] Re: Possible additional info needed in developer guide?

2010-09-16 Thread kcrisman
I would say there is definitely a use for this addition :) assuming someone were to write it ;) And having it written in a *findable* place would make a lot of difference. I was just helping review an spkg where the person had just zipped it with bz2 and renamed, and it was very nice to just poin

[sage-devel] Re: Possible additional info needed in developer guide?

2010-09-16 Thread kcrisman
that page from each of the above ones for those who are more interested, and that would take care of things. If you're up to this, I think that cc:ing people like myself, mvgnu, leif, rbeezer, mhansen, robertwb would lead to at least one of us taking a first draft and seeing if it was up to REs

[sage-devel] Warning: No permissions to add a comment.

2010-09-20 Thread kcrisman
Anyone else getting this problem on Trac? Just curious if it's just me. I've logged in and out a lot, quit and started browser, no avail. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-deve

[sage-devel] SAGE_CHECK question

2010-09-20 Thread kcrisman
27;t seem to cut it. Has anyone else had this happen? - kcrisman -- 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://groups.google.com/g

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE_CHECK question

2010-09-21 Thread kcrisman
> > What happens if > > > export SAGE_CHECK=no > > > is done?   > > Then the test suite is run. Good, so I'm not insane. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: Function assume() has no effect on Maxima via desolve()

2010-09-23 Thread kcrisman
;s assumption framework, since that was the best thing going inside of Sage for this purpose. - kcrisman -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Is the file $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-sage.py used for anything?

2010-09-23 Thread kcrisman
from the version they're > using to create the distributions. > > If someone wanted to work on trac ticket #21, then this file would Wow, a TWO-digit Trac ticket. One of only three remaining, as far as I can tell... unfortunately it isn't easy to create a custom report listing t

[sage-devel] Re: Is the file $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-sage.py used for anything?

2010-09-23 Thread kcrisman
> > Wow, a TWO-digit Trac ticket.  One of only three remaining, as far as > > I can tell... unfortunately it isn't easy to create a custom report > > listing things in numerical order only. > > > - kcrisman > > Click on the "Ticket #" header to s

[sage-devel] Re: Function assume() has no effect on Maxima via desolve()

2010-09-23 Thread kcrisman
edge ever reviews Nils Bruin's patch to make library access to Maxima the default, it will even be fast :) so we won't complain about that any more. But please don't make these blanket statements about the whole content of Sage until you are familiar with all those subsystems. As I&

[sage-devel] Re: Function assume() has no effect on Maxima via desolve()

2010-09-24 Thread kcrisman
clarification on Maxima also importing scientific libraries of certain kinds. Doesn't make it an elephant! - kcrisman -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: plotting simultaneous Sage worksheets

2010-09-25 Thread kcrisman
eous interesting users for any other class of users > you care about. > > Can you guess when a class hit the Sage server?  The peaks stand out > quite a bit :). Ironically, the first time I tried the link I got a 503 Service Denied due to overload :) - kcrisman -- To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread kcrisman
this as much as possible. I think the real problem is that we never knew whether Linux PPC was supported or not! The notion of 'official support' has evolved considerably over the last year, thanks largely to the efforts of Dave K. - mostly in good ways, I'd say. - kcrisman -- To p

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread kcrisman
27;d be willing to retest it on the OS X PPC box to make sure that didn't break anything - no, Dima, I still don't have the Linux up on that yet :( - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-d

[sage-devel] Re: matplotlib on the Sage command line

2010-09-29 Thread kcrisman
it doesn't exist, which it may) for the other? - kcrisman -- 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://groups.google.com/grou

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 29, 11:46 am, maldun wrote: > > Maldun, do you think that would be possible?  I'd be willing to retest > > it on the OS X PPC box to make sure that didn't break anything - no, > > Dima, I still don't have the Linux up on that yet :( > > > - kcris

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 29, 2:10 pm, maldun wrote: > > Maldun, do you think that would be possible?  I'd be willing to retest > > it on the OS X PPC box to make sure that didn't break anything - no, > > Dima, I still don't have the Linux up on that yet :( > &g

[sage-devel] Re: Please update R in sage. (R, sage, automap and sp)

2010-10-01 Thread kcrisman
ing with it (I know Leif is doing things), and upgrade the source > based on changes by Leif and others. Although if the upgrade is quite straightforward otherwise, it wouldn't hurt to leave the rpy spkg issue to later. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googleg

[sage-devel] Re: Where is the source for sage.matrix.matrix_modn_sparse.Matrix_modn_sparse.__eq__?

2010-10-06 Thread kcrisman
ge: foo?? > > but couldn't. What is going on here?"), > > +1 Well, what should really be done is to make this sort of thing not happen when we do ?? Jason, is that at all technically feasible, or is it even more complicated than your coercion answer? - kcrisman -- To post to

[sage-devel] Re: mathjax?

2010-10-06 Thread kcrisman
And for those too lazy to click on Nils' link... Mathjax is the successor to jsmath, by the same author. William was one of the people who convinced his funders to allow a GPL-compatible license, and Jason G. and others are definitely hot to upgrade once they have the opportunity. - kcr

[sage-devel] Re: mwrank(-10) - sensible or not ???

2010-10-09 Thread kcrisman
Why not try the same thing under sage -gdb to see what's happening? Good work on the fuzz tests - I like the name, too. - kcrisman On Oct 9, 8:03 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > Following some very quick hacks at using "fuzz testing" techniques, I found > that

[sage-devel] Re: Test the "binomial" function in an expression

2010-10-10 Thread kcrisman
in some earlier revisions. No matter how I imported it, the arith.py one is the one that would show up, but this would be a great goal. - kcrisman -- 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...@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: Bug with Latex in sage

2010-10-12 Thread kcrisman
perts" but does have the ability to destroy your Sage if you aren't careful. - kcrisman -- 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

[sage-devel] log(1) returns int, not Integer

2010-10-15 Thread kcrisman
? I'm not 100% sure this is a bug in log; maybe instead we should extend int so that sage: int(3).n() AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'n' sage: n(int(3)) 3.00 have the same output. Thanks for any feedback, - kcrisman -- To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: log(1) returns int, not Integer

2010-10-15 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 15, 2:02 pm, Burcin Erocal wrote: > Hi Karl-Dieter, > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:09:50 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > > kcrisman wrote: > > -- > > | Sage Version 4.6.alpha3, Release Date: 2

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-18 Thread kcrisman
leanup as well. I think I must be one of the only people to use the 'minor' field on a regular basis. And most of the 'critical' ones are not critical in that sense. But there hasn't been much discussion at all of what counts as a critical or major thing - i

[sage-devel] Re: radical ideal computation in Sage

2010-10-18 Thread kcrisman
Here's another way to see this: sage: P. = QQ[] sage: I = Ideal(x+y+z-3,x^2+y^2+z^2-5,x^3+y^3+z^3-7) sage: from sage.misc.citation import get_systems sage: get_systems("I.radical()") ['Singular'] - kcrisman On Oct 18, 8:04 pm, Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Tuesday 19

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-19 Thread kcrisman
kill sets - neither of which is the case here, in a project which is monstrously diverse in terms of skill needs and obviously very non- hierarchical), I don't see how it's feasible to implement your ideas on this, other than the reminders of good practice you give in public fora such as thi

[sage-devel] Re: Wolfram Alpha low bandwidth portal into Sage to attract new users?

2010-10-19 Thread kcrisman
Yes, let's keep in mind that notebook servers with fewer users are usually very snappy and a great resource. It's not CPU power, but number of simultaneous users, I think. Maybe it's time to relieve the strain on sagenb by publicizing more of the other 'semi-secret' server

[sage-devel] Re: organized ticket reports page

2010-10-19 Thread kcrisman
x27;re "retiring" the welcome messages? Those were very useful for people wanting to click through to the other lists, as well as wanting to know what a particular list was about. We may need to put more details about their purposes on the regular Sage page that sends people to them. - kcris

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-20 Thread kcrisman
to > sage-devel, > but I believe the combination rather shows that we are unlikely to find a lot > of > developers taking on Burcin's proposals. Hmm, that is interesting. I don't know if it means anything (it might), but it is interesting. Thanks for that. - kcrisman --

[sage-devel] Re: search_methods() to search the methods of an object

2010-10-20 Thread kcrisman
dly long list (perhaps asking "show all?") for the *second* tab, it could be annoying. But certainly having a way to do the sage-mode thing without using sage-mode would be really nice, especially when one isn't sure what_order_words_are_in. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, se

[sage-devel] Re: bug wranglers

2010-10-21 Thread kcrisman
ome of the meta-reasons OSS is good), but the sheer time involved without this automation for anything that uses non-Python code (esp. upgrading spkgs) is overwhelming. But this project seems to be further away than 1) and 2) above, which are so close to fruition. - kcrisman -- To post to thi

[sage-devel] Re: assume(s,'real') is broken?

2010-10-22 Thread kcrisman
res this. As I say above, a simpler example would be easier to try in "pure" Maxima and to see what happens there if one assumes s is real. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+

[sage-devel] Re: assume(s,'real') is broken?

2010-10-22 Thread kcrisman
through. I may not have time to look into this for a while otherwise, so if no one else responds relatively soon feel free to make a new Trac ticket and cc: kcrisman. > It seems that the 'real' assumption is completely ignored. Yes, I saw that - just wanted one easier to type in by h

[sage-devel] Re: assume(s,'real') is broken?

2010-10-22 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 22, 1:08 pm, Mike Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > So somehow that isn't getting through.  I may not have time to look > > into this for a while otherwise, so if no one else responds relatively > > soon feel free to mak

[sage-devel] Re: Supported platforms - once again

2010-10-25 Thread kcrisman
might be able to make a machine available for this, depending on what the buildbot would actually do. Mitesh or you can email offlist if desired. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsu

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-26 Thread kcrisman
sniff at, particularly in situations with low bandwidth. What does that (piece of Sage) compress to in the .tgz? - kcrisman -- 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.c

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-26 Thread kcrisman
right, maybe more like 3-4 MB if we only needed one version of gfortran. That would be a nice compromise to the issues raised here, and I'd be very happy to test these (as I'm sure some others would be as well); unfortunately, I don't have the skills needed to actually create such an

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-26 Thread kcrisman
ing other platforms that would say > installing prerequisite xy on my system/platform isn't easy > either. ;-) Perhaps, but in that case they shouldn't be using such user-unfriendly systems in the first place ;) - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-26 Thread kcrisman
ard to package. I know I have no moral authority on this as I can't do it, and this has been discussed ad nauseam before, but it would be so awesome, and Mike's binary did eventually work for me... after a bit of not-for-dummies stuff, of course. Sorry, now I'm OT. - kcrisman

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-27 Thread kcrisman
I have the option, I > try to just use Python + Cython. > For current Sage needs, though, the reason for Fortran is Scipy and R, correct? (Maybe PolyBoRi?) Though I also note http://www.sagemath.org/doc/numerical_sage/f2py.html refers to another cool %magic thing. Just checking. - kcrisman

[sage-devel] Re: release date for sage-4.6?

2010-10-27 Thread kcrisman
the dates (for various reasons, discussed a lot elsewhere) as the release structure has gotten more well-defined. - kcrisman -- 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...@googlegroup

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-27 Thread kcrisman
uff). Good to know, thanks. - kcrisman -- 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://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: Is it *really* necessary for everyone to download fortran.spkg ?

2010-10-27 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 27, 11:16 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:52 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> The Sage packages that directly depend on Fortran are:  R, f2c, > >> lapack, blas, numpy, scipy, cvxopt: > > >> Note that numpy can be built and used *without

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days 27: Jan 7 - 13, 2011

2010-10-28 Thread kcrisman
eople who would attend both that we really will need a minimum staffing to make the Sage table (already paid-for, I guess) at the Joint Meetings a working proposition. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread kcrisman
My favorite part is the non-spoofy thing that happens at this spoofy site: > Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect > tohttp://sagemath.org/homeuse/to request a Sage license for their 404 Error: page not found as it should be :) - kcrisman -- To post to this group, s

[sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-29 Thread kcrisman
> I'm of the opinion that outside academia, there is not a lot of call for > Mathematica. > I think that in physics Mma is used fairly heavily, at least in certain circles. I don't know how much of that is outside academia, presumably a fair amount. - kcrisman -- To post

[sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread kcrisman
in their Sage life cycle. It takes a while to get used to an open development culture! Which this thread shows is very healthy in Sage :) FWIW, - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsu

[sage-devel] Re: technology behind Sage screencasts/videos

2010-11-04 Thread kcrisman
It turns out there is a preference you can set in Quicktime X to make both a screencast AND a movie with the builtin camera, and then in iMovie you could line them up, so if I ever do something like that, I'd go that way (with a moderately powerful computer). - kcrisman -- To post t

[sage-devel] Re: Version numbers of sage_scripts, extcode, examples, sagenb

2010-11-04 Thread kcrisman
of them easily, though. I know there is discussion of this earlier on this list as well as on some tickets, but I cannot find them - probably because 'examples' is a VERY common word and I'm not too good at directing them Boolean searches there. - kcrisman -- To post to th

[sage-devel] Re: Could we test upgrades of Sage with buildbot?

2010-11-05 Thread kcrisman
e quite that long, but on a similar order of magnitude (i.e., not under 10 minutes). Is bsd.math pretty busy with other things? - kcrisman -- 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...@googlegr

[sage-devel] Re: Bad result of integrate from maxima, are those documented/listed in some place?

2010-11-08 Thread kcrisman
At least historically, such errors often had their own Trac tickets for putting doctest patches when such things were fixed. I don't know if that is the best way, but it does at least call attention to the actual error, as opposed to subsuming it into a Maxima upgrade ticket. - kcrisman -

[sage-devel] Re: Error compiling sage-4.6

2010-11-10 Thread kcrisman
tinue the build. Sometimes this works for me. So if you did make before, you could just type make again. - kcrisman -- 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 op

[sage-devel] Re: libatlas and libcblas on MacOSX Intel? os.uname() ?

2010-11-11 Thread kcrisman
> import os > os.uname()[4] > > 'Power Macintosh' > os.uname()[0] > > 'Darwin' > > > What is it on Intel? On 10.4 PPC? > Same on 10.4 PPC. -- 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.

[sage-devel] Re: Policy on license conditions for new packages?

2010-11-11 Thread kcrisman
e cannot distribute it under GPLv2+! In fact I think that on occasion William has asked GPLv2 people to relicense under 2+, and often (always?) they've been happy to do so. Is there any current code in Sage that is GPLv2 only? I am sure that makers of proprietary software cackle with glee e

[sage-devel] Re: "Why Sage?" Website Section

2010-11-12 Thread kcrisman
ormula to use in what situation and finding maximum volumes of boxes or rates of emptying of conical water tanks doesn't fit that...). But now it's a moot point. Maxima uses Lisp; Sage has Python; XYZ has WTQ; etc. For some people Python is a selling point; let it be a selling point, the

[sage-devel] Re: simplify_rational and Pynac

2010-11-13 Thread kcrisman
could check such things at the library level. That's a little orthogonal to your main question, which I should know the answer to, but have forgotten off hand. Might this be in sage/ libs/ginac/ ? - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubs

[sage-devel] Re: "Why Sage?" Website Section

2010-11-13 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 12, 5:16 pm, rjf wrote: > On Nov 12, 10:46 am, kcrisman wrote: > > > > My view is that there has been excessive boosterism for Python, > > Perhaps. > > > So having packages in Python doesn't matter, and therefore it is not > > > really a

[sage-devel] Re: Questions about Solve

2011-09-13 Thread kcrisman
;m not quite sure what the best solution is. The easiest one is making really big letters in the documentation that say "don't do this" and trying to catch these cases. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Re: Questions about Solve

2011-09-13 Thread kcrisman
> Personally, I'm in favor of deprecating the solve(eq, x,y) or solve(list > of equations, x,y,z) syntax, and would prefer that the variables be > specified as a list: Backwards-incompatible, hence fodder for the mythical Sage 5.0 ... > solve(eq, [x,y]) or > solve(list of equations, [x,y,z]) Tho

[sage-devel] Re: Questions about Solve

2011-09-13 Thread kcrisman
Okay, it turns out that this is the explanation for all the weirdness at #10750, which I hadn't bothered to figure out before. I'm updating that ticket now. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubsc

[sage-devel] Re: Questions about Solve

2011-09-14 Thread kcrisman
> > Backwards-incompatible, hence fodder for the mythical Sage 5.0 ... > We deprecate after one year.  I think deprecation should have nothing > to do with "sage 5.0".  The policy, which we agreed on long ago is Sometimes we've talked about "1 year + next (major) version". My point was that 5.0

[sage-devel] Fractal Newton basins = Need Cython help!

2011-09-22 Thread kcrisman
s in a course the second half of the semester - one intended (among other things) to familiarize majors with many tools and resources in math, such as MathSciNet, various journals, LaTeX, and... Sage. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubs

[sage-devel] Re: Fractal Newton basins = Need Cython help!

2011-09-23 Thread kcrisman
happening behind the scenes. > Discussion continuing on the ticket - incidentally, Simon already provided a ton of help on this there, let's hear it for the speed of open source! (When it wants to be speedy.) - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroup

[sage-devel] Re: fast_callable errors when wrong number of arguments supplied

2011-09-27 Thread kcrisman
> So, does anyone have any objections to changing the fast_callable error > to a TypeError (rather than ValueError), and making the error message > analogous to math.cos?  I'll interpret silence as assent :).  I'm not > sure what to do about a deprecation, though.  How do you do a > deprecation war

[sage-devel] Re: building Sage on Lion

2011-09-30 Thread kcrisman
> It is my opinion that Apple has no interest in funding or supporting > Sage.   (1) Funding open source projects is really in Apple's culture > (which is very different than say Google's), and -- more importantly, You mean "not" in the culture, in case anyone gets confused, though the context mak

[sage-devel] Re: Graph Theory Sage ; Clustering co-efficients

2011-10-06 Thread kcrisman
! - kcrisman On Oct 6, 3:12 pm, Chappman wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am currently doing a project which involves graph theory. I have created a > graph, and I have currently hit a brick wall with getting some summary > measures such as clustering coefficients. > > I have current

[sage-devel] Minor change request on Trac

2011-10-12 Thread kcrisman
ort 21, but which one we link to on the front page is probably a matter of preference.] Thanks! - kcrisman -- 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://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: Minor change request on Trac

2011-10-13 Thread kcrisman
4. If someone disagrees, then they should *add* report 21 or some other report as a direct link, so that both are available from the front page (fewer clicks). Thanks, Leif! As to the other stuff, I can only say +1. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: Updated Live CD sagelive-511-47-rc1.iso

2011-10-14 Thread kcrisman
very important. Exactly what security risk would using an exe installer (say, if it were downloaded to a Windows 7 box and someone opened the installer) pose? Though Cygwin will still be a "more" native solution, something that is one-click is really the point for us. - kcrisman -- To p

[sage-devel] Re: Bug report spreadsheet write-only?

2011-10-18 Thread kcrisman
on (Harald, most notably?), but it is hard to integrate with one's usual habits. If you can make a way to make it easier to use, that would be really helpful. Many of the reports are known or duds, but some aren't, and it's useful to have more feedback that people can come back to. - kc

[sage-devel] Re: sagenb.org problems

2011-10-18 Thread kcrisman
> The first step in getting that database-centric design into sagenb is to > test and release the flask notebook that is has been in the wings since > January. > > So another call to everyone: please, please test test.sagenb.org and > report any regressions. > > William: I think that it wouldn't hu

[sage-devel] Re: sagenb

2011-10-19 Thread kcrisman
had a lot of fun the rest of class. Let's get this upgrade tested and *in*. - kcrisman On Oct 19, 12:18 am, Jason Grout wrote: > On 10/18/11 9:49 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > sagenb.org is now upgraded to the latest version of the flask notebook. &g

[sage-devel] Re: Code style guidelines

2011-10-24 Thread kcrisman
tEdit. But I'm sure that many first-time developers would use that at most, if not even more rudimentary tools. - kcrisman -- 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 m

[sage-devel] Re: Code style guidelines

2011-10-27 Thread kcrisman
I won't repeat Jason's email above, but +1 to everything he said. On Oct 27, 2:18 am, Simon King wrote: > Hi Florent, > > On 26 Okt., 17:58, Florent Hivert wrote: > > > If you want some example of what has been painful in the past, here they > > are. Note: I don't intend any offense against the

[sage-devel] Re: build spkg's in parallel by default?

2011-10-27 Thread kcrisman
ds... I'm assuming this would also have no effect on single-processor machines, even if one were to be silly and set MAKE=make -j2 or something? - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel

[sage-devel] Re: build spkg's in parallel by default?

2011-10-27 Thread kcrisman
the Sage build. Things like errors in zlib... "This may not be fatal", then "read jobs pipe, Operation not supported, stop". Not a big deal, because with unset make but parallel spkg build there is no problem. But just something to watch for, maybe to add to the devel guide when

[sage-devel] Re: sage days in January?

2011-10-28 Thread kcrisman
ot of interest those with the power to make it happen will concur :) - kcrisman -- 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://groups.google.

[sage-devel] Re: Consistency for undefined expressions

2011-10-28 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 28, 7:48 pm, Eviatar wrote: > Thank you for the information. > > However, I do think Sage acts inconsistently with logarithms. > > Why should this work: > > sage: log(0) > -Infinity > > but not this: > > sage: log(2, 0) > ValueError: m must be positive The base is the *second* argument.

[sage-devel] Re: Consistency for undefined expressions

2011-10-29 Thread kcrisman
sage: 1./0 +infinity sage: CC(1)/0 NaN - NaN*I And why -, not +, NaN*I? Since sage: CC(-1)/0 NaN - NaN*I sage: CC(0)/CC(0) NaN - NaN*I Anyone who knows more about this is welcome to say more/correct, though! - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

[sage-devel] Re: sage short course at the joint meeting in Boston

2011-11-01 Thread kcrisman
Also it's worth pointing out that there are (at least) two contributed papers about using Sage. Teaching Transformations of Functions Using Sage (by PREP participant Susan Schmoyer) http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/amsmtgs/2138_abstracts/1077-d5-2556.pdf Full Sage Contents of Introductory Line

[sage-devel] Re: sage short course at the joint meeting in Boston

2011-11-01 Thread kcrisman
Wiki page up at http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2012 Everyone, please make this more accurate (e.g., sign up!) and think about how to make the table even more awesome this year. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-devel] Re: sage short course at the joint meeting in Boston

2011-11-02 Thread kcrisman
-sized box of materials > left over from Mathfest, including handouts, quick references, stickers, > signs, etc. Great... more to carry. So I may have to drive that first day, and parking in the Back Bay/Fenway is nuts. :( - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: or sage-5.0? (Re: [sage-release] Next release: sage-4.7.3 or sage-4.8?)

2011-11-03 Thread kcrisman
l my Cygwin instead because of some weird sed problem Leif and I were trying to figure out a few months ago... sigh. - kcrisman -- 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 o

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