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

2010-10-28 Thread François Bissey
I would expect significant pushback from the Gentoo people on the issue of including other projects inside Sage. GCL packaged gmp4 (now fixed) and their response was that this should not be part of GCL. I'm not sure if independently available projects (e.g. ECL, Maxima, etc) would fit the

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

2010-10-28 Thread François Bissey
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:01 PM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding fortran, for a Microsoft Visual C++ version of Sage, I will just get rid of Fortran (and Lisp) entirely, and not bother with building anything currently in Sage that depends on them... My thoughts about

Re: [sage-devel] Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/28/10 06:37 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The fact Sage does not reliably respect the CC and CXX variables is a pain if you want to use a non-GNU compiler, but I just found it causes problems on openSUSE

Re: [sage-devel] Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2010-10-28 09:17, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: There are so many things weird about the Sage build process. Unfortunately, that's very true. I guess the problem is that you have so many different packages all with their own Makefile system. Jeroen. -- To post to this group, send an email to

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

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/26/10 08:32 PM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, leifnot.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Okt., 19:36, William Steinwst...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding fortran, for a Microsoft Visual C++ version of Sage, I will just get rid of Fortran (and Lisp) entirely, and not

Re: [sage-devel] Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread François Bissey
On 10/28/10 06:37 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: f2c http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7027 This to me looks like the upstream source code has been modified. SPKG.txt says The one change is to use cc instead of gcc in the makefiles. I think the comment is round the other way, and they have

Re: [sage-devel] All of sage as a python library

2010-10-28 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi William, On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:44:21PM -0700, William Stein wrote: When I started Sage I viewed it as a distribution of a bunch of math software, and Python as just the interpreter language I happen to use at the time. I didn't even know if using Python as the language would

[sage-devel] Re: Can people try this readline package please

2010-10-28 Thread leif
On 27 Okt., 20:36, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I've created an updated readline package to attempt to get a better solution (less of a hack), to the issues on openSUSE 11.2, 11.3 and Arch Linux. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/readline-6.1.spkg

[sage-devel] Re: Can people try this readline package please

2010-10-28 Thread luisfe
On Oct 27, 8:36 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I've created an updated readline package to attempt to get a better solution (less of a hack), to the issues on openSUSE 11.2, 11.3 and Arch Linux. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/readline-6.1.spkg

[sage-devel] Re: code refereeing and code.google.com

2010-10-28 Thread leif
On 27 Okt., 09:56, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2010-10-27 09:36, Robert Bradshaw wrote: The larger problem with the current system is not that it's hard to comment on a single line, but it's way to much work to *fix* a single line. I would say it's mainly way too

Re: [sage-devel] All of sage as a python library

2010-10-28 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear William, dear all, (I am CC'ing Sage-Combinat which may be interested by this thread on sage-devel) On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:44:21PM -0700, William Stein wrote: (3) Have other Python libraries (like psage: http://code.google.com/p/purplesage/source/browse/), which depend on

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

2010-10-28 Thread François Bissey
On 10/27/10 08:38 PM, François Bissey wrote: I should pipe in since we are talking about that. Generally speaking sage should work on a reasonably up to date stable Gentoo system. However it would be a good thing to point user to sage-on-gentoo as it is aimed at properly integrating to

[sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Volker Braun
Making every 3rd party author adhere to the standard usage of CC/CXX is a bit like herding cats. It would be the cleanest fix to patch all the different build systems, sure. But wouldn't it be easier if Sage would set up its own gcc wrapper in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin? The first step of the Sage build

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2010-10-28 11:31, Volker Braun wrote: Making every 3rd party author adhere to the standard usage of CC/CXX is a bit like herding cats. It would be the cleanest fix to patch all the different build systems, sure. But wouldn't it be easier if Sage would set up its own gcc wrapper in

[sage-devel] Re: solving system of polynomial equations in finite field

2010-10-28 Thread DuleOrlovic
I forget to add few more equations to system ie. {x^4-x,y^4-y,z^4-z} in reason to have solution in GF(4) and zero dimensional ideal, so I answered my question. But, I have another issue. When I use quotient ring Q, J.groebner_basis() does not return completely reduced basis. Also, with quotient

[sage-devel] Is some idiot attaching junk to the Wiki?

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Unless I'm mistaken, someone has attached loads of file to the Wiki. See for example the attachments on the AIX page http://wiki.sagemath.org/AIX See the Recent Changes page too. http://wiki.sagemath.org/RecentChanges -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

[sage-devel] Re: Is some idiot attaching junk to the Wiki?

2010-10-28 Thread Volker Braun
Spammers.. Evidently the wiki captcha is not difficult enough ;-) On Oct 28, 11:18 am, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, someone has attached loads of file to the Wiki. See for example the attachments on the AIX page http://wiki.sagemath.org/AIX See the

[sage-devel] Re: solving system of polynomial equations in finite field

2010-10-28 Thread luisfe
On Oct 28, 11:57 am, DuleOrlovic duleorlo...@gmail.com wrote: I forget to add few more equations to system ie. {x^4-x,y^4-y,z^4-z} in reason to have solution in GF(4) and zero dimensional ideal, so I answered my question. But, I have another issue. When I use quotient ring Q,

[sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread John Cremona
While fixing the bug at #10096 by editing sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/sha_tate.py, I noticed that there were several doctests tagged # long. Doctests can be tagged #long time to get ignored unless -long is specified when testing. But tagging tests just #long does NOT have this effect! My

Re: [sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi John, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Worth a ticket? I think so. But perhaps I think there should be at least two separate tickets. One ticket for fixing the long doctesting issue in exactly one file in the Sage library. Ideally that file should

Re: [sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread John Cremona
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Worth a ticket? I think so. But perhaps I think there should be at least two separate tickets. One ticket for fixing the long

Re: [sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi John, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:13 AM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know which should be the one file to single out though! Of all the candidate files you listed above, I think plot/plot.py is the best candidate for isolation within a single ticket, even though that

Re: [sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread John Cremona
OK, I'll make two tickets accordingly (cross-referencing eachother). John On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:13 AM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know which should be the one file to single out

Re: [sage-devel] marking doctests #long vs. #long time

2010-10-28 Thread John Cremona
See #10182, #10183. John On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:21 PM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'll make two tickets accordingly (cross-referencing eachother). John On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:13

[sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Alexandre Blondin Massé
In that case, since it's compiling a C++ file, the variable should be called CXX, so changing to $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) -c cubex.cpp and removing the line CC=g++ makes it use Sage's variable. It doesn't change much to the problem, but instead of removing the line CC = g++ I think you could

[sage-devel] Re: solving system of polynomial equations in finite field

2010-10-28 Thread Roman Pearce
On Oct 28, 4:20 am, luisfe lftab...@yahoo.es wrote: Computing with generic quotient rings I am afraid that will be slow and that will yield to various errors. Specially as in this case, where the ideal is not prime (you are looking for solutions in GF(4)). Doesn't GF(4) construct a field with

[sage-devel] Re: solving system of polynomial equations in finite field

2010-10-28 Thread luisfe
On Oct 28, 5:25 pm, Roman Pearce rpear...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 28, 4:20 am, luisfe lftab...@yahoo.es wrote: Computing with generic quotient rings I am afraid that will be slow and that will yield to various errors. Specially as in this case, where the ideal is not prime (you are

[sage-devel] Re: Adding a new type

2010-10-28 Thread VictorMiller
Florent, Thanks for pointing that out. There are a few semirings which I'd like to see in there: 1) Boolean semiring: where '+' is 'or' and '*' is and 2) Tropical semiring: if R is an ordered abelian group then there is a semiring whose elements are R union {Infinity}, and '+' is min, '*' is

[sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Bill Hart
On 28 Oct, 08:17, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 10/28/10 06:37 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net  wrote: The fact Sage does not reliably respect the CC and CXX variables is a pain

[sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread William Stein
(The following is a *spoof* of something I just got from the Director of computing at UW. I replaced the name of some famous math software with Sage. See if you can guess which.) Sage users- Documented use of Sage on computers not authorized under our contract with Stein has caused them to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code refereeing and code.google.com

2010-10-28 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:36 AM, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 27 Okt., 09:56, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2010-10-27 09:36, Robert Bradshaw wrote: The larger problem with the current system is not that it's hard to comment on a single line, but it's way to much

Re: [sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread François Bissey
(The following is a *spoof* of something I just got from the Director of computing at UW. I replaced the name of some famous math software with Sage. See if you can guess which.) Sage users- Documented use of Sage on computers not authorized under our contract with Stein has caused

Re: [sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: (The following is a *spoof* of something I just got from the Director of computing at UW.   I replaced the name of some famous math software with Sage.  See if you can guess which.) Sage users- Documented use

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code refereeing and code.google.com

2010-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:36 AM, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 27 Okt., 09:56, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2010-10-27 09:36, Robert Bradshaw wrote: The larger problem with the current system is

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

2010-10-28 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage Devel (and Bug Days) lists: Sage Days 27 will be Jan 7-13, 2011 (almost certainly in Seattle)w, and the theme will be Fixing Bugs in Sage! The wiki page is here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days27 So far 11 people have expressed a strong interest in coming. If you are a good at

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

2010-10-28 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 28, 3:56 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sage Devel (and Bug Days) lists: Sage Days 27 will be Jan 7-13, 2011 (almost certainly in Seattle)w, Joint Mathematics Meetings are January 6-9, 2011. I see a mention of this on the wiki as well; maybe it would be worth reminding

[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, send an

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

2010-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 28, 3:56 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sage Devel (and Bug Days) lists: Sage Days 27 will be Jan 7-13, 2011 (almost certainly in Seattle)w, Joint Mathematics Meetings are January 6-9, 2011.  I see a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/28/10 02:34 PM, Alexandre Blondin Massé wrote: In that case, since it's compiling a C++ file, the variable should be called CXX, so changing to $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) -c cubex.cpp and removing the line CC=g++ makes it use Sage's variable. It doesn't change much to the problem, but instead

[sage-devel] Re: solving system of polynomial equations in finite field

2010-10-28 Thread DuleOrlovic
Thanks for comments. Apologizing for misplaced mailing list. BYE On Oct 28, 5:37 pm, luisfe lftab...@yahoo.es wrote: On Oct 28, 5:25 pm, Roman Pearce rpear...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 28, 4:20 am, luisfe lftab...@yahoo.es wrote: Computing with generic quotient rings I am afraid that will

Re: [sage-devel] Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi David: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:51:39AM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The fact Sage does not reliably respect the CC and CXX variables is a pain if you want to use a non-GNU compiler, but I just found it causes problems on openSUSE too. There g++ installs as /usr/bin/g++-4.5, not as

[sage-devel] Re: Adding a new type

2010-10-28 Thread Florent Hivert
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:05:39AM -0700, VictorMiller wrote: Florent, Thanks for pointing that out. There are a few semirings which I'd like to see in there: 1) Boolean semiring: where '+' is 'or' and '*' is and +1 at least to this one: if you look at

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Adding a new type

2010-10-28 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Florent, Maybe you could give Victor some pointers to what Éric Laugerotte had implemented in MuPAD-Combinat. Cheers, Nicolas On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:41:34PM +0200, Florent hivert wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:05:39AM -0700,

Re: [sage-devel] Is some idiot attaching junk to the Wiki?

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 11:18AM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, someone has attached loads of file to the Wiki. See for example the attachments on the AIX page http://wiki.sagemath.org/AIX See the Recent Changes page too. http://wiki.sagemath.org/RecentChanges I

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

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 02:00PM -0700, kcrisman wrote: On Oct 28, 3:56 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sage Devel (and Bug Days) lists: Sage Days 27 will be Jan 7-13, 2011 (almost certainly in Seattle)w, Joint Mathematics Meetings are January 6-9, 2011. I see a mention of

Re: [sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed. Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect to http://sagemath.org/homeuse/ to request

[sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/28/10 6:33 PM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed. Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 10/28/10 6:33 PM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other

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

2010-10-28 Thread mhampton
Can you (and anyone else reading this who wants to volunteer) add yourself to: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2011 ? Thanks, Marshall On Oct 28, 6:27 pm, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 02:00PM -0700, kcrisman wrote: On Oct 28, 3:56 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com

Re: [sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/29/10 12:33 AM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed. Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect to

[sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/28/10 10:20 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 10/29/10 12:33 AM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed. Faculty and

Re: [sage-devel] code refereeing and code.google.com

2010-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:54 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just spent the day working on code with some people, and using http://code.google.com with multiple cloned repositories and their code review

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/29/10 04:34 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 10/28/10 10:20 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 10/29/10 12:33 AM, Dan Drake wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University of Washington Seattle. Any other

Re: [sage-devel] Spoof: Sage Misuses

2010-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If you want to put students off of using Mathematica, I can suggest a very simple way. Suggest they look on job sites like phdjobs, monstir.com, and search for the number of jobs requiring Mathematica

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

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:08, Marshall Hampton wrote: Can you (and anyone else reading this who wants to volunteer) add yourself to: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2011 Speaking of the Joint Meetings, does anyone need a roommate? Send me an email if you're interested; I plan to be there for the

[sage-devel] ECL / Maxima / Fedora 14 issues.

2010-10-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Apparently the version of ECL in Sage will not build on Fedora 14 which is coming out on the 2nd November. I created a trac ticket for this. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10185 Note however that the latest ECL is 10.4.1, which apparently does build on Fedora 14, since a package I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Oh I wish Sage respected CC and CXX

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Oct-28 02:31:19 -0700, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: Making every 3rd party author adhere to the standard usage of CC/CXX is a bit like herding cats. It would be the cleanest fix to patch all the different build systems, sure. But wouldn't it be easier if Sage would set up its