[sage-support] Fwd: Cubic Root

2014-08-26 Thread William A Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: *Andre Xavier* Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Subject: Cubic Root To: wst...@uw.edu Hi Stein! My name´s André, I from Brazil. I have a question: Why a cubic root of -1 (n((-1)^(1/3))) in Sage Math is: 0.500 + 0.866025403784439*I? Not

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:37:10 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > negligent if you aren't going to phishing sites Critical bugs could be in every subsystem, not just in the browser. You can't know. The only thing that is for sure is that, somewhere, somebody is checking every new bugfix that Ap

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-08-26, kcrisman wrote: > --=_Part_472_1817143489.1409078230466 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > >> >> Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7, >>> >> >> Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho grossly >> negligent to connect a OSX 10.6 machi

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-08-26, Daniel Friedan wrote: > --=_Part_4367_1566256233.1409080390865 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I've been able to run the 64 bit version of Sage 6.2 onn my Core 2 Duo OS X > 10.6 macbookpro with no trouble. > This is the version I downloaded as > *sage-6.2-x8

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Daniel Friedan
I've been able to run the 64 bit version of Sage 6.2 onn my Core 2 Duo OS X 10.6 macbookpro with no trouble. This is the version I downloaded as *sage-6.2-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg*

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread kcrisman
> > Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7, >> > > Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho grossly > negligent to connect a OSX 10.6 machine to the internet. Upgrade to OSX > >=10.7 or Linux ;-) > > You always say stuff like that ("buy the poor guy a few gig of

[sage-support] Re: (warning: humor) Re: Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-08-26, William A Stein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Volker Braun wrote: >> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:59:37 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7, >> >> >> Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho gross

(warning: humor) Re: [sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread William A Stein
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:59:37 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7, > > > Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho grossly negligent > to connect a OSX 10.6 machine to

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:59:37 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7, > Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho grossly negligent to connect a OSX 10.6 machine to the internet. Upgrade to OSX >=10.7 or Linux ;-) -- You

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-08-26, Volker Braun wrote: > --=_Part_2182_349848151.1409057890862 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > You have to manually rename the sage-6.3-i386-Darwin.dmg to include the > -app and version details. > > It seems you built 32-bit binaries, which you can verify with "file"

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Volker Braun
You have to manually rename the sage-6.3-i386-Darwin.dmg to include the -app and version details. It seems you built 32-bit binaries, which you can verify with "file" e.g. On the old 10.6 buildbot the output defaulted to 64 bit. No idea why that is or how to change the defaults for xcode comman

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread William A Stein
Hi, I just want to note that the second contributor ever to Sage -- David Kohel -- was complaining to me yesterday about some sort of lack of support of Sage right now for his OS X 10.6 laptop.Just a point in favor of continued support of 10.6. -- William On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Da

[sage-support] Re: sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-OSX_10.6_x86_64-app.dmg won't be built?

2014-08-26 Thread Daniel Friedan
Dima's suggestion worked. My OS X 10.6.8 build of Sage 6.3 succeeded, produced a .dmg file containing an app version that ran and passed some rudimentary tests. I have a few questions about the resulting build. Modulo these questions, I could volunteer to produce OSX 10.6 builds of future Sag