Re: [sage-devel] Re: What was/is/will be the purpose of maintaining the Sage distribution?

2023-04-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
run the test suite. If you are choosing to use 15-20 year old hardware, you can not reasonably to handle a large modern program like Sagemath. More modern machines than that get thrown in skips.  Dave. > -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkby

Re: [sage-devel] OT: google's chatbot Bard is at https://bard.google.com/

2023-03-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 17:26, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Google's chatbot Bard is at https://bard.google.com/ > > Bard isn't available in my country. You can always spoof where you are with the Tor Onion browser -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co

Re: [sage-devel] where is rpy2

2023-03-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
quite a hassle as it has so many dépendances - but I guess that you know that. Dave -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registe

Re: [sage-devel] Problem building sage 9.2 on CentOS 7.9

2021-04-16 Thread Dr David Kirkby
16 Apr 2021, 15:36 Dr David Kirkby, wrote: > >> >> I'm fairly certain I built 9.2 on this machine before, but it failed this >> time. >> >> Dell 7920 >> 320 GB RAM >> 2 x Intel Xeon 8167M CPUs (2.0 GHz, 26-core each) >> Machine under a heavy

[sage-devel] Problem building sage 9.2 on CentOS 7.9

2021-04-16 Thread Dr David Kirkby
I'm fairly certain I built 9.2 on this machine before, but it failed this time. Dell 7920 320 GB RAM 2 x Intel Xeon 8167M CPUs (2.0 GHz, 26-core each) Machine under a heavy load looking for Mersenne Primes at GIMPS 1) Run configure 2) make -j50 [gap-4.10.2.p1]

Re: [sage-devel] How much do we support optional packages.

2018-03-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 26 March 2018 at 00:09, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Given this, there should be no tickets made blockers merely on the basis > that Sage broke on your favourite patchbot or laptop... > > Dima > I think the method Wolfram Research follow with Mathematica has a *lot* of merit.

Re: [sage-devel] How much do we support optional packages.

2018-03-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 25 March 2018 at 18:06, William Stein wrote: > >> opinions. > > My initial intention with ooptional packages was definitely that they > do *not* have as much support as standard. > The developers guide. http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/packaging.html says: "

Re: [sage-devel] How much do we support optional packages.

2018-03-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 25 March 2018 at 10:03, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently Volker does not agree with what was a kind of agreement here > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24903#comment:3 > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23533#comment:13 > > It would be nice that we take a

Re: [sage-devel] Online Sage Days

2017-10-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 9 September 2017 at 10:04, David Roe wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'd like to organize some online Sage Days, where people gather on > zulip.sagemath.org and work on Sage together. The two things to be > decided are > Sounds good. 1. What topics should we focus on? > 2.

Re: [sage-devel] Implementation plan : inclusion of OpenSSL

2017-10-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 October 2017 at 16:38, Emmanuel Charpentier < emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Proposal for implementation of OpenSSL inclusion in Sage. > > The inclusion of OpenSSL in Sage has been decided > > after a long and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: inclusion of OpenSSL in Sage

2017-10-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 24 October 2017 at 15:51, Emmanuel Charpentier < emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Final tally > > Yes, we should fully support OpenSSL now, and clarify the licensing issue > : 9 unambiguous votes : > > > > No, we should wait until OpenSSL finishes fixing their license situation >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: inclusion of OpenSSL in Sage

2017-10-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 18 October 2017 at 14:13, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave > Note: We're not talking about adding *any* OpenSSL code to SageMath. > Sage would never be distributed with code from OpenSSL. We're only

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: inclusion of OpenSSL in Sage

2017-10-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 18 Oct 2017 00:39, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:35 PM Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: >> There are a lot of number theorists using Sagemath. Could one or more co

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VOTE: inclusion of OpenSSL in Sage

2017-10-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 17 Oct 2017 23:56, "Dima Pasechnik" wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 10:52:47 PM UTC+1, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote: >> >> > The problem is that we cannot, as rightfully pointed here by Michael, provide a tarball with OpenSSL source, as this > would be an outright

Re: [sage-devel] EU Copyright reform threatens open source

2017-10-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 2 October 2017 at 09:38, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > Dear Sage developers, > > Summary: the EU is looking to pass a new copyright act that would > require sharing platforms to filter for copyright infringements. For > software sharing platforms like GitHub,

Re: [sage-devel] EU Copyright reform threatens open source

2017-10-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 2 October 2017 at 09:38, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > Dear Sage developers, > > Summary: the EU is looking to pass a new copyright act that would > require sharing platforms to filter for copyright infringements. For > software sharing platforms like GitHub,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Including 64-bit-only code in Sage

2017-09-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 20 September 2017 at 07:58, Volker Braun wrote: > IMHO its a code smell if your code doesn't work on 32-bit platforms. > Remember, almost all 32 bit platforms are perfectly capable of working with > 64-bit integers (just not as fast). But your code must be *correct*

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 4 September 2017 at 18:34, Erik Bray wrote: > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori > wrote: > +1 I think if this functionality is needed for Solaris (or any other > platform) it should be moved into configure.ac, and the explicit >

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 2 September 2017 at 21:59, John H Palmieri wrote: > > I don't know if Sage works on Solaris right now, but if it does, does it > build gcc (as it does on OS X), or does it use a preexisting compiler? > I would be surprised if Sage did build on Solaris now, as I would

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 2 September 2017 at 01:41, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > Can you clarify? You say that the are necessary on Solaris, but is that > recent information? It is possible that newer versions of Sage and/or > Solaris might make SAGE64 unnecessary. > > Regards, >

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 2 Sep 2017 01:41, "John H Palmieri" wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Can you clarify? You say that the are necessary on Solaris, but is that recent information? It is possible that newer versions of Sage and/or Solaris might make SAGE64 unnecessary. > > Regards, > John Hi John,

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 1 Sep 2017 23:54, "François Bissey" <frp.bis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2/09/2017, at 10:47, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > On 1 Sep 2017 23:21, "John H Palmieri&quo

Re: [sage-devel] Does anyone use SAGE64?

2017-09-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 1 Sep 2017 23:21, "John H Palmieri" wrote: > > Does anyone use the environment variables SAGE64 of CFLAG64? At https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23733, it is suggested that they be deprecated and then removed. Any comments? > > -- > John They are necessary if one

Re: [sage-devel] Calculation Error

2017-08-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 26 August 2017 at 01:40, David Roe wrote: > This is not a bug. If you look at the documentation for Integer.__pow__, > you'll see "For consistency with Python and MPFR, 0^0 is defined to be 1 in > Sage." > David > I'm not a mathematician, but believe 0^0 is undefined.

Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-07-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 27 July 2017 at 10:01, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2017-07-26 00:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > >> Would it be worth creating a fork of PARI >> > > What *exactly* do you mean with that? > > I feel like "

Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-07-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Jul 2017 21:16, "Jeroen Demeyer" wrote: > > Hello sage-devel and sage-packaging, > > I propose to upgrade the PARI package to the git master version instead of the current released version. > > > A second motivation is that stable releases of PARI are very slow. The

[sage-devel] Re: MPIR-3.0.0 released

2017-07-01 Thread Dr David Kirkby
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 12:06:52 UTC, Bill Hart wrote: > > Hi all, > > We have just released MPIR-3.0.0. > > http://mpir.org/ > I don't know if this will reach sage-devel, since I have not posted there for more than a year, and some spammer used another account I used to use. For what it

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion for main configure script to give package names for Latex.

2016-09-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 6 September 2016 at 13:45, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:08:25 AM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby > Microwave Ltd) wrote: >> >> I'm trying to migrate away from Solaris to Linux, given the

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion for main configure script to give package names for Latex.

2016-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On Tuesday, 6 September 2016, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:08:25 AM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby > Microwave Ltd) wrote: >> >> I'm trying to migrate away from Solaris to Linux, given the takeover by &

[sage-devel] Suggestion for main configure script to give package names for Latex.

2016-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
I'm trying to migrate away from Solaris to Linux, given the takeover by Oracle. I decided to install the latest Debian (8.5 == Jessie) , and Sage. I have not succeeded yet, but some of the issues seem to be ones where the installation could be made easier for popular linux distributions. First

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-10-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 3 October 2015 at 16:38, rjf wrote: > > > > Most software developers seeking funding need a "killer app". I don't > know that Mathematica has one -- but maybe it is STEM education, > since that's the major way of selling lots of systems. There were > forays into financial

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-10-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 Sep 2015 21:51, "Bill Hart" wrote: > > I don't see why would you make people use Sage for that, just so you can get the Sage usage figures up, instead of writing that as a simple Python package. > But if Sage could do a lot of the things related to this, which

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-10-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 Sep 2015 21:51, "Bill Hart" wrote: > > I don't see why would you make people use Sage for that, just so you can get the Sage usage figures up, instead of writing that as a simple Python package. > But if Sage could do a lot of the things related to this, which

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 September 2015 at 18:05, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > It is usually good to build on strong points. So, what are best areas in > Sage? Where it now is The Software(tm) to use? > > And how could we expand those to some near area? > I'm not convinced that is true - in

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 September 2015 at 20:44, Bill Hart wrote: > > It's extremely unlikely we'll get someone wanting to move to the EU from > overseas for a position only guaranteed for one year. We are at least being > realistic about it. > > Bill. > Certainly many engineers

Re: [sage-devel] Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
ve. Just look at the toolboxes available for MATLAB http://uk.mathworks.com/products/ any you will soon see Sage is far from a viable alternative to MATLAB. Sage may be more of a viable alternative to Mathematica and Maple. Dr David Kirkby (A chartered engineer but *not* a mathematician) -- You recei

Re: [sage-devel] Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 September 2015 at 10:07, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > > > O * HP 4284A precision frequency reference > Oops, the 4284A is a precision LCR meter, not a frequency reference. That instrument is obsolete http://www.

Re: [sage-devel] What can we assume about our C compiler

2015-09-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 21 Sep 2015 13:58, "Thierry Dumont" wrote: > > Le 21/09/2015 14:16, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : > > On 2015-09-21 13:47, Nathann Cohen wrote: > >> Hello everybody, > >> > >> What can we assume on our C compiler? Is it always gcc? > > > Did anybody tried ICC ? I can do

[sage-devel] Mobile Friendly web sites - SageMath is not one of them.

2015-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
.com%2F I was looking at a report from PayPal today, which shows that 85% of the things I sell are exported outside the UK, but 0% are purchased from my site with a mobile computer. I think it's about time I addressed that issue, and made my site "mobile friendly". Dr. David Kirkby P

[sage-devel] Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
the possibility of a mobiles apps for Android and Apple phones that have a subset of functionality without internet access, and better access with internet access. Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK

Re: [sage-devel] Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 13 September 2015 at 18:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, September 13, 2015, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > >> A ticket I opened years ago about a problem on AIX, got closed rece

Re: [sage-devel] Sources of funding - perhaps computer manufacturers?

2015-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 13 Sep 2015 21:49, "William Stein" wrote: >> Agreed, the AIX interested from someone at IBM did go anywhere. But that does not mean that an approach to other hardware/software vendors would fail. If funding has dried up from research grants, perhaps another approach is

Re: [sage-devel] Why am I getting tons of old sage-trac emails?

2015-09-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 7 September 2015 at 06:12, David Roe wrote: > Frédéric Chapoton was removing tab characters from the description > field on lots of old tickets. He has since stopped, upon request. > There's a recent thread about an alternate solution to the problem he > was trying to

[sage-devel] Why am I getting tons of old sage-trac emails?

2015-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
, but updated in the last 12 hours. David Kirkby. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this g

[sage-devel] It's confusing including both "configure" and "Makefile" in source.

2015-09-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
the top of it says dnl Version 0.7 written by David Kirkby, released under the GPL version 2. dnl in January 2010 If it is being used, then the Makefile should not be there. It seems a bit confusing to have both to me, but perhaps others disagree. Dave Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave

[sage-devel] Pretty confusing problem stoping Sage 6.9.beta5 even try to build on OpenSolaris - it used to build fine

2015-09-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
Set the environment variable SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this. make: *** [all] Error 1 drkirkby@hawk:~/sage-6.9.beta5$ Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK. Registered in England and Wales,

Re: [sage-devel] Announcing $0M in new funding for the SageMathCloud over the next 3 years

2015-07-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
and SageMathCloud development, and also support of Sage development at UW, this is a major blow. Do you have any feedback as to why your projects were not funded? Dr David Kirkby Managing Director Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Jun 2015 20:10, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: It's officially called The Wolfram Language [1] beating out [2] many It would never surprise me is it was renamed to the Stephen Wolfram Language. Dave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Extremely broad bug in Sage Integral Computations

2015-06-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
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[sage-devel] Build problem of zeromq-4.0.5 on 32-bit SPARC processor running Solaris.

2015-06-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
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Re: [sage-devel] Sage 6.7 fails to build on Solaris SPARC - libfplll-4.0.4 problem with isfinite

2015-05-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 May 2015 00:05, François Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: On 05/25/15 10:03, François Bissey wrote: What version of gcc are you using? I see 4.5.0. I don't really know if it is because it is too old I will try a build tomorrow letting Sage build the included and later

[sage-devel] Sage 6.7 fails to build on Solaris SPARC - libfplll-4.0.4 problem with isfinite

2015-05-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
/local/var/tmp/sage/build/libfplll-4.0.4' '/export/home/drkirkby/sage-6.7/sage' --sh) When you are done debugging, you can type exit to leave the subshell. drkirkby@buzzard:~/sage-6.7/logs$ Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 6.7 fails to build on Solaris SPARC - libfplll-4.0.4 problem with isfinite

2015-05-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 24 May 2015 22:04, François Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Painful memory from when I tried to compile octave with IBM xlC compiler. Before c++11 it is a gnu extension. You probably got a compiler that decided to be stricter. Francois I am using gcc though - not the

Re: [sage-devel] hosting the sage cell server

2015-05-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 14 Apr 2015 22:50, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sage Developers, Is there anybody who would be willing to host the Sage cell server? http://sagecell.sagemath.org/ I'm unable to do this, but I rather suspect that you would have zero or very few offers if the cloud software was

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Is Sage living in a state of emergency ?

2015-05-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 18 May 2015 17:29, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: It's also worth keeping in mind that people may offer to host services at their university, unaware that what they are doing might potentially violate rules. At least, I know from personal experience that this could be an issue..

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Deprecate or just remove

2015-04-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 14 Apr 2015 18:26, Niles Johnson nil...@gmail.com wrote: another 2c: There is also the option of deprecating, but for less than the somewhat arbitrary 1 year. Although I would agree a year is somewhat arbitrary, a couple of things are worth bearing in mind about the year. 1) If a lecturer

Re: [sage-devel] Mathematica interface

2015-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 22 December 2014 at 00:43, Robert Jacobson rljacob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have yet to contribute code to sage, but I think I've found something easy enough for me to start with. I'd like to talk about how to proceed. I found ticket #13892 and the apparent duplicate ticket #15318 which

Re: [sage-devel] Mathematica interface

2014-12-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 23 December 2014 at 00:55, Robert Jacobson rljacob...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:56:24 UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: There is an open source command line interface to Mathematica. IIRC it uses curses so one can recall previous input, edit

Re: [sage-devel] Mathematica interface

2014-12-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 23 Dec 2014 00:55, Robert Jacobson rljacob...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:56:24 UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: There is an open source command line interface to Mathematica. Dave When I searched for one last week I was surprised not to find

Re: [sage-devel] Mathematica interface

2014-12-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 22 Dec 2014 00:43, Robert Jacobson rljacob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have yet to contribute code to sage, but I think I've found something easy enough for me to start with. I'd like to talk about how to proceed. I found ticket #13892 and the apparent duplicate ticket #15318 which indicate

Re: [sage-devel] SageMathCloud now open source

2014-12-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Dec 2014 17:46, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, SageMathCloud is now completely open source. Great. Question: Why is SMC open source? Answer: Two of the four NSF grants that very substantially supported SMC development had explicit open source requirements. -- William

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Maple versus Mathematica

2014-12-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 1 Dec 2014 05:48, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Mathematica has weak coverage across much of mathematics related to algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, number theory and group theory. In particular, as a specialist in computational number theory, I find the functionality in

[sage-devel] Fwd: Try Mathematica desktop + online for free

2014-12-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
For anyone interested, it is possible to get a 15-day trial of the online version of the world's ultimate computation system. It might be worth comparing the experience with Sage. Original Message Subject: Try Mathematica desktop + online for free Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Maple versus Mathematica

2014-11-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 27 Nov 2014 20:51, maldun dom...@gmx.net wrote: I personally a comparison of sage with the other Systems is quite hard, since all of the other 4Ms concentrate more or less on particular fields of mathematic (e.g. Matlab focus on numerics, Mathematica more on Calculus etc.) Sage is far from

[sage-devel] The code of conduct is getting out of hand - please stop for 2 weeks.

2014-11-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
Discussions on this are not going in a positive direction. The tone of the discussions is far worst than anything I have seen on here in a long time. I think it would be best if everyone stopped discussing it for a couple of weeks, and revisited it later (I propose Monday the 15th December).

[sage-devel] IMHO having sage-abuse publicly readable is a bad idea

2014-11-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
I voted against the code of conduct, as I did not feel it was well thought out. Nothing has changed my mind about that - in fact the discussions just seem to reinforce my view. But that aside, I respect the decision of a majority. I always felt it was bad to have Sage developers making decisions

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 22 Nov 2014 18:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I will start a new thread on sage-devel with a clear title VOTE: code of conduct, copy of the proposed code, and [ ] Yes/ [ ] No option, I hope that your vote states how the code of conduct will be administered, how readers of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 21 Nov 2014 22:22, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say it's OK to have such a code, but it's not really OK to actively enforce it. Such an active enforcement would only be counterproductive, if not outright impossible. Dima Is there any point in having something that is not

Re: [sage-devel] VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
[x] No -- do not adopt the code of conduct stated below David Kirkby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-devel] Maple versus Mathematica

2014-11-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 18 Nov 2014 22:37, Stefan stefanvanz...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I simply lack the appropriate Mathematica knowledge, but years ago, when I implemented matroids lM = Map[If[# == 0, 0, 1] , M[[2]][[#[[2]] /@ M[[3]], #[[2]] /@ M[[4, {2}]; I am no expert on Mathematica, but

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
- Jason Grout - Nicholas Thiery - David Kirkby We could: 1. Create a private mailing list called sage-abuse with these people as members. I don't know if I am the only one of the top 12 contributors who doesn't want to be in the sage-abuse list, but count me out. I don't feel

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct

2014-11-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 15 November 2014 16:44, Anne Schilling a...@math.ucdavis.edu wrote: Code of Conduct Thanks for the links to the guidelines. It is interesting to see how other communities handle this. Dave's question was how situations will be handled when a violation occurs or that are reported.

Re: [sage-devel] Code of Conduct

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 13 November 2014 18:48, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: and welcome everyone to vote on it. Code of Conduct --- If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct, we ask that you report it by emailing sage-ab...@googlegroups.com. The group administrators

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 14 November 2014 09:22, Bruno Grenet bruno.gre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-14 10:05 GMT+01:00 rjf fate...@gmail.com: My point here is that an unenlightened and obscure part of a problem with one computer program has (I think mistakenly) been elevated to a discussion of mathematics, open

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 12 November 2014 20:35, Ursula Whitcher whitc...@uwec.edu wrote: Article at http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/sagebugprocess.pdf has been updated based on feedback. UAW A bit more feedback - from a non-mathematician. 1) It would be better if rather than over-writing an old

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 13 November 2014 11:19, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk wrote: You need to be a particularly confident use to report a bug in a trac ticket. I have reported bugs in software I know very little about, but enough to know there is a bug. Of course I mean

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 12 November 2014 20:18, Ursula Whitcher whitc...@uwec.edu wrote: On 11/11/2014 3:41 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: If I am honest, I am not that convinced it is a good follow up comment, OK, I won't put your name on it ;) You can if I ultimately feel the submitted

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
LOn 13 Nov 2014 11:19, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk wrote: 4) It might be worth briefly stating that if (hypothetically) such a bug was found in Sage, rather than just report the bug, the trio could have inspected Sage, determined the code used

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 13 Nov 2014 11:27, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2014-11-13 12:19, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: di erent(sic) con dent(sic) I think these are font issues with your PDF reader. You are missing the glyphs for the ligatures ff and fi. I don't have

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 10 Nov 2014 23:08, Ursula Whitcher whitc...@uwec.edu wrote: On 11/5/2014 8:24 AM, Willia . s J. _ .m Stein wrote: * By we write up above, I mean you write up something very, very rough, post it here, and get feedback. Done! http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/sagebugprocess.pdf I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 4 Nov 2014 19:16, rjf fate...@gmail.com Perhaps the mathematical community needs to have an open-access database of bug reports for commercial software. A discussion of the usefulness, legality, practicality, commercial benefits etc. of such a database could be interesting. think it's not

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 3 Nov 2014 22:05, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I usually ignore RJF, but in this I just want to encourage everybody else to also ignore him too... regarding his discouragement about everything, especially Ursula's excellent suggestion. I'm sure the AMS would be very interesting

Re: [sage-devel] Can We Trust Computer Algebra Systems?

2014-10-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 29 Oct 2014 14:54, Jakob Kroeker kroe...@uni-math.gwdg.de wrote: In fact, in particular cases active testing was already done by some Sage developers, which (I do not know this) probably were not explicitly paid for that task. I have certainly fed random inputs to sage and found some that

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-10-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Oct 2014 05:07, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: And here's a public worksheet: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/49a2531d-9d02-42c9-9db6-f9551fbfa59e/files/2014-10-24-212837.sagews (Thanks,

Re: [sage-devel] The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-10-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
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Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-10-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Oct 2014 19:40, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, the real WTF of the article (besides the low information density) is that Wolfram sat on the bug report for 1 year and did nothing about it. There must be tons of Sage bugs reported which don't get fixed. You can argue

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
without too much work. But there would be some. 10) I think 9 points is enough. Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK. Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. http

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 12 September 2014 20:12, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the kernel of your annoyance. I was struck by the fact that Beebe says nice things about Common Lisp, and maybe that was your annoyance -- after all, python version n+1 might be incompatible with version n; and maybe

Re: [sage-devel] error installing package ppl-1.1

2014-09-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 9 Sep 2014 00:25, François Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: But it is almost certain the system glpk is the problem. If so, given Sage ships glpk, and quite a number of other packages to ensure that we control exactly the versions being linked, then I suspect the ppl package

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-09-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 28 August 2014 16:55, Vincent Delecroix 20100.delecr...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-08-28 17:44 UTC+02:00, Jori Mantysalo jori.mantys...@uta.fi: I am now thinking for example university class using Sage as a part of some course. Teachers don't want to use time for being it-support; students do

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 28 Aug 2014 21:58, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: However, can we put VirtualBox and Sage to one .exe? What is really needed is to convert http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance to be just 1) Download this .exe, 2) Doubleclick it, 3) Ready. Yes, I wrote an installer which included

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 27 Aug 2014 02:13, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: The biggest problem by far is the upstream projects who do not accept patches into their repositories to support Windows, and aren't willing to make the changes to their codebase to support Windows 64. Nor do they continue to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 27 August 2014 07:41, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 25, 2014 10:15:41 AM UTC+2, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: It seems Sage really could do with a native windows port. Just my 2 cents (after not really reading the whole thread) What

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
The download size of such a subset would be smaller than the full version and MUCH smaller that a virtual machine image, as one doesn't need to include a complete operating system too. That's not true. E.g., Puppy Linux is around 50MB, and is a complete useful operating system. In

[sage-devel] How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
It seems Sage really could do with a native windows port. I am wondering how practical it would be to make a version which is a subset of Sage, with something like Qt which runs on Windows, Linux, OSX and Solaris and has the look and feel of those platforms. It could make a Google Summer of

[sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Aug 2014 10:37, maldun dom...@gmx.net wrote: Hi! Python XY ( https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/ )and WinPython ( http://winpython.sourceforge.net/) do this for years now and are working properly. Maybe one can use this as a start since many of the needed prequisites are there. Yes,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Aug 2014 12:19, Julien Puydt julien.pu...@laposte.net wrote: I don't understand why people insist on trying to build the windows port on windows with cygwin ; it's also possible to cross-build windows ports I was mainly thinking of a C++ version with its own parser. If that used Qt or

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Aug 2014 12:44, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: I think Sage-on-Cygwin is fay more realistic than a pure native (even stripped down) version of Sage. I you care about Windows, concentrate your efforts on the Cygwin port. Why has so much time been spent on it, without success?

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How practical/useful would a native windows subset be?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 25 Aug 2014 14:21, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 2014-08-25 13:27, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: I would not think it too hard to generate a parser which is linked to the * GMP * MPFR * GNU scientific library which I would expect would compile

Re: [sage-devel] Re: SageMathCloud / closed source / GPL / Spirit of Sage??

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
I think the whole closed source nature is likely to restrict the takeup of Sage for several broad groups of people when they realise that to get high performance they are going to need to store sensitive material on a Linux server they don't control. As a 50 year old engineer I have worked at

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