[sage-devel] Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Yip
Hello I have been using sage on opensuse 10.2 for a long time. It has been a great replacement for mathematica for me. Thank you for all the good work !! Recently, I updated my system to 11.1. Before the update, I was using Sage Version 3.2, Release Date: 2008-11-20. When I tried to use

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread daveloeffler
Upgrading from 3.3.alpha2, it all downloads and builds fine, but the fix for the fractional ideals in relative number fields problem seems to have introduced a new bug: sage: K.a = QuadraticField(-23) sage: L.b = K.extension(x^3 - x - 1) sage: OL = L.ring_of_integers() It seems to get stuck in

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread Alex Ghitza
Thanks for the report, David. This is now trac #5136: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5136 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 PM, daveloeffler dave.loeff...@gmail.comwrote: Upgrading from 3.3.alpha2, it all downloads and builds fine, but the fix for the fractional ideals in relative

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 at 11:19AM -0800, mabshoff wrote: Hello folks, here goes alpha3 which is still rather large. It is mostly the mop up of patches from Sage Days 12 which went rather well :) [...] Please build, doctest and report all issues. I've done multiple runs of 'make test', 'make

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: On Jan 29, 3:17 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Built and fails spectacularly: * Fedora 64 bit, with dozens of failures like this (about 1 in 6 doctest files): sage -t devel/sage/sage/misc/all.py A mysterious error (perphaps a memory error?)

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: Hello folks, here goes alpha3 which is still rather large. It is mostly the mop up of patches from Sage Days 12 which went rather well :) [...] Please build, doctest and report all issues. On Fedora 9, 32 bits in a fresh build: The following tests failed:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 5:41 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: mabshoff wrote: Hello folks, here goes alpha3 which is still rather large. It is mostly the mop up of patches from Sage Days 12 which went rather well :) [...] Please build, doctest and report all issues. On Fedora 9, 32

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
Elizabeth Yip wrote: Hello Hi Elizabeth, I have been using sage on opensuse 10.2 for a long time. It has been a great replacement for mathematica for me. Thank you for all the good work !! Recently, I updated my system to 11.1. Before the update, I was using Sage Version 3.2,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 6:25 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: mabshoff wrote: SNIP The problem is likely the same as Carl Witty and I tracked down above, i.e. brk() does not extend the heap and Singular goes boom even though it did get the memory. Note that in case of failure the amount

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.3.alpha3 released

2009-01-30 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: On Jan 30, 5:41 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: [...] Now running this eight tests in a loop. Until now: [j...@paix sage-3.3.alpha3]$ grep passed t.log | wc -l 493 [j...@paix sage-3.3.alpha3]$ grep fail t.log | wc -l 2 [j...@paix sage-3.3.alpha3]$ grep

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Elizabeth Yip el...@comcast.net wrote: Hello I have been using sage on opensuse 10.2 for a long time. It has been a great replacement for mathematica for me. Thank you for all the good work !! Recently, I updated my system to 11.1. Before the update, I

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I just finished upgrading the matplotlib spkg to the newest version. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4774 This version of

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I just finished upgrading the matplotlib spkg to the newest version. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4774 This version of matplotlib deprecates some of the constructs found in

[sage-devel] Re: A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2009-01-30 Thread kcrisman
Platypus has been discussed a number of times before, including by Ivan: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86b087a2fb157678 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/647f9610f161f2fd

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I *wish* matplotlib would replace their stupid deprecation warnings by something that just updates the matplotlibrc file, and say makes a copy of the

[sage-devel] Re: A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 7:47 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Platypus has been discussed a number of times before, including by Ivan:

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
John Hunter wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: I *wish* matplotlib would replace their stupid deprecation warnings by something that just updates the matplotlibrc file, and say makes a copy of the old one. Is there any way we could catch the

[sage-devel] Re: A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2009-01-30 Thread kcrisman
Two followups: Yep, and given that it isn't open source I would rather not touch it. 1. Platypus is GPL, as Ivan correctly points out above. It was Fluid that isn't. But it still requires rather a lot of interaction for someone not too familiar with scripting, enough that I was foiled when

[sage-devel] Re: A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 8:38 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Two followups: Yep, and given that it isn't open source I would rather not touch it. 1. Platypus is GPL, as Ivan correctly points out above.  It was Fluid that isn't.  But it still requires rather a lot of interaction for someone

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Carl Witty
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I just finished upgrading the matplotlib spkg to the newest version. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4774 This version of

[sage-devel] Re: Interfacing VisIt, ParaView with Sage

2009-01-30 Thread Jaap Spies
Pat LeSmithe wrote: Hello, Sage developers, Hi Pat, In the interest of cross-fertilization, I'd like to mention VisIt [1] and ParaView [2]. These are BSD-licensed parallel visualization applications based partly on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) [3]. [1]

[sage-devel] Re: openopt spkg for Sage

2009-01-30 Thread dmitrey
Hi SAGE developers, I have been informed about the discussion, don't you mind me to put my 2 cents here? I wonder if openopt isn't nearly mature enough for Sage? I guess I hardly have correct rights to comment it, still I concider OpenOpt is quite mature, see

[sage-devel] sage days 13

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
Hello, If anybody is very interested in attending Sage Days 13 we still have a very small amount of funding left: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days13 Please email me if you're very interested. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Carl Witty carl.wi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: I just finished upgrading the matplotlib spkg

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: Well, there is something to be said for what you said. We ship our own version of matplotlib, which mostly likely is different than the system install. That means that their perfectly good default matplotlibrc file might cause deprecation warnings for us. For that

[sage-devel] tinymce

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-devel (and mainly Jason Grout), OK, so TinyMCE totally rocks, and now I use it all the time. Question -- can we change it so pressing shift-enter is the same as clicking Save Changes. This would make the UI much more consistent with the rest of the sage notebook, where pressing shift

[sage-devel] Re: tinymce

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: Hi Sage-devel (and mainly Jason Grout), OK, so TinyMCE totally rocks, and now I use it all the time. Question -- can we change it so pressing shift-enter is the same as clicking Save Changes. This would make the UI much more consistent with the rest of the sage

[sage-devel] illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread Carl Witty
We have a problem finding and maintaining machines old enough to not have SSE3, etc., so that we can reliably build Sage binaries that don't rely on SSE3. Evidently, vmware lets you mask CPUID results, to hide particular CPU features from the guest:

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Carl Witty carl.wi...@gmail.com wrote: We have a problem finding and maintaining machines old enough to not have SSE3, etc., so that we can reliably build Sage binaries that don't rely on SSE3. Evidently, vmware lets you mask CPUID results, to hide

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Yip
Thanks for the 3.2.3 binary. It works when I use it as root. As I use it as a normal user, when I issued the notebook() command: sage: notebook() The notebook files are stored in: /home/eliz/.sage//sage_notebook ** *

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Elizabeth Yip el...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks for the 3.2.3 binary. It works when I use it as root. As I use it as a normal user, when I issued the notebook() command: sage: notebook() The notebook files are stored in: /home/eliz/.sage//sage_notebook

[sage-devel] TinyMCE behavior on published notebooks

2009-01-30 Thread Peter
Hi, I really like the TinyMCE editor for textcells and think it will be very useful for interactive course notes and student projects. I did notice that on 3.3.alpha1 TinyMCE is also invoked when I double- click on the text cell of a published notebook (without being logged in). This is not

[sage-devel] Re: TinyMCE behavior on published notebooks

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Peter peter.jip...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I really like the TinyMCE editor for textcells and think it will be very useful for interactive course notes and student projects. I did notice that on 3.3.alpha1 TinyMCE is also invoked when I double- click on the

[sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Nils Bruin
On Jan 30, 10:46 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Add a warnings handler which traps the Matplotlib deprecation warning. This handler will compare the matplotlibrc with the one that was distributed in the last release (maybe by checking a hash value). If it is identical

[sage-devel] Re: TinyMCE behavior on published notebooks

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Peter peter.jip...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I really like the TinyMCE editor for textcells and think it will be very useful for interactive course notes and student projects. I did notice that on 3.3.alpha1 TinyMCE is also invoked when I

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 11:58 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Carl Witty carl.wi...@gmail.com wrote: We have a problem finding and maintaining machines old enough to not have SSE3, etc., so that we can reliably build Sage binaries that don't rely on SSE3.

[sage-devel] Re: TinyMCE behavior on published notebooks

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: William Stein wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Peter peter.jip...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I really like the TinyMCE editor for textcells and think it will be very useful for interactive course notes and student projects. I did notice that on 3.3.alpha1 TinyMCE is

[sage-devel] not-so-n00b developing question

2009-01-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Hi all, I'm trying to make some changes to my sage installation. I change the file in the $SAGE_ROOT/devel tree, then call $SAGE_ROOT/sage -b Now this works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. If I run $SAGE_ROOT/sage, it's as if I made no changes at all. This is an example of the output from

[sage-devel] Re: not-so-n00b developing question

2009-01-30 Thread Jason Grout
john_perry_usm wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to make some changes to my sage installation. I change the file in the $SAGE_ROOT/devel tree, then call $SAGE_ROOT/sage -b Now this works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. If I run $SAGE_ROOT/sage, it's as if I made no changes at all. This

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 2:18 pm, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP Yep, I have been playing around with this and I don't think it will be too far into the future. I did play around with the script I wrote some more and the only code using SSE3 or higher is ./libatlas.so: at least 863330 sse

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jan 30, 2:18 pm, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP Yep, I have been playing around with this and I don't think it will be too far into the future. I did play around with the script I wrote some more

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 5:46 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jan 30, 2:18 pm, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP Yep, I have been playing around with this and I don't think it will be too far into the

[sage-devel] Re: illegal instruction warnings: masking CPUID with vmware?

2009-01-30 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 30, 6:01 pm, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP Seriously: The energy spend on an SSE only build is plainly not worth it considering the number of bugs I can fix in the same time where the vast majority of Sage users benefit. Once #2999-#3001 is done we can attempt to do

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Yip
Thanks for the suggestion. It works !!! Then I tried to rerun some of my old worksheets and had a problem with plot3d. I got an empty gray rectangle, no display. plot3d was working very nicely when I was running opensuse 10.2 !! I opened http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml to test

[sage-devel] LaTeX - SWS conversion project, proof-of-concept

2009-01-30 Thread Rob Beezer
I've written a short (14-page) primer on using basic group theory commands in SAGE. It is available in the Sage Documentation Project area of the wiki, and via direct links below. There is a seperate post in the sage-edu list soliciting comments on the content. I've used this project as a test

[sage-devel] Re: not-so-n00b developing question

2009-01-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Hey, it turns out that you hit it on the money. While looking through it again, I noticed that when examining the source through sage (using ??) the source file was listed in the directory /atlas/home/perry/nethome/sage-3.2.1/... instead of /home/software/sage-3.2.1/... nethome is

[sage-devel] Re: Problems with opensuse 11.1

2009-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Yip
When I tried to run sage as root and issued the plot3d command in the notebook, I got the following error message on the console from which I issued the sage command: PIPE: appletviewer wrote: running PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-9777-0 PIPE: appletviewer read: tag