On 5/10/07, dgalant wrote: > Not to complain, but this is a list of problems that I have had with > sage2.5 under MacOS X.4.9 on both Intel and PowerPC macs. I am using > the .dmg files. (thanks for this alternative) > > (1) I need a small file added to sage/local/bin that gives the path > to Octave even though this path is part of the PATH variable. (no big > deal, just odd)
Could you be more precise (again)?
> (2) In the notebook, octave('sin(1)') works properly, but, in a block,
> %octave
> sin(1)
>
> gets an error message that the argument must be a string. (when I use
> a string, it works.) I cannot believe that this is correct behavior
> -- it is certainly different from sage2.4.2 and earlier.
This is related to unicode changes, probably in going from python-2.5 to
python-2.5.1. The attached patch fixes the problem. Alternatively,
if you type "hg_sage.pull()" you'll get the fix along with a few other unrelated
fixes. Make sure to type "sage -br" from outside sage after you pull.
> An unrelated problem is my inability to install scipy because of some
> problem unrelated to sage. There is a mac package that installs scipy
> binaries, and given some direction as to where to install these files
> (and some others needed by sage I assume) I would be happy to try to
> install scipy from these files and then to share my experiences with
> the sage community if that is appropriate.
Thanks. Brian Granger is also working on making scipy easy to install
with SAGE. Brian (who I've cc'd) -- I wonder how hard it would be to
make a scipy
spkg for SAGE that is a pre-built binary, built by people who happen
to have fortran compiled? I bet it wouldn't be hard. Thoughts? It's
getting to the point where most SAGE users prefer pre-built binaries,
so this would be quite reasonable.
> Thank you and your colleagues for this software,
>
> David Galant
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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University of Washington
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