[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
It looks like it might be a while before this is fixed by numpy: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1403 Given the importance of numpy to Sage, I think it might make sense to drop support for PPC linux. On the positive side: 1) There are considerable improvements to numpy and scipy in the

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have written the two people I could find who might care about Sage on linux ppc and invited them to respond here, or I will summarize or forward any direct response. On Sep 29, 1:02 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't asking for a majority vote.  I'm wondering if _anyone_

[sage-devel] Re: Ticket #9808 for newer numpy and scipy packages would need a final decision

2010-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
and we need to stay reasonably in sync with numpy, scipy, and python. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 29, 1:09 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I have written the two people I could find who might care about Sage on linux ppc and invited them to respond here, or I will summarize

[sage-devel] Memory leak

2010-03-04 Thread Marshall Hampton
I am forwarding this from sage-support because it seems like it might be a serious problem. -Marshall -- Forwarded message -- From: Yann yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com Date: Mar 4, 5:49 pm Subject: Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees? To:

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had the same error as Carlo, which I reported for the alpha4 and rc0 releases as well. I'm sort of puzzled, given the nature of the error, as to why more people don't see it. I also had sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/bordeaux_2008/birds_other.rst A mysterious error (perhaps a memory error?)

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I like the sticker idea too. I'm not sure how to go about making them - anyone know a good place to order custom tiny stickers? It would be cool to use the sage logo if it could be printed small crisply. -Marshall On Oct 13, 7:21 pm, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 at

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
In many talks, etc., I have made a big stink about how every released version of Sage is available, so if a paper uses sage-x.y.z, then it is possible to get sage-x.y.z and try out the computation (unlike the situation with magma, say).So I think making the old source easy to find is

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I mostly agree. 2 months is acceptable. 6 months seems too long for all the reaons Jason articulated. -Marshall On Oct 13, 10:09 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: As it is, there is a semi-major research code contribution I plan to make before Christmas that will be needed

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
Its a little thing, but I noticed that the DATA directory is missing its last '/', which is present in previous notebook versions. I like having a trailing '/' present in a directory string, so this seems like a regression. Haven't noticed anything else yet. -Marshall On Oct 12, 12:03 am,

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
Yes, please! Ondrej's usage is very similar to mine. I would find it quite annoying to have to os.path.join all the time. Marshall On Oct 12, 11:54 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'll change it to end in os.path.sep, which is cross-platform and still allows for your use case

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, I'll print up 500 business cards and anyone who wants some can just let me know. I think it will be interesting to see how the meeting goes without an informal presence. Last year we had a big footprint with the booth, AMS session and MAA session. But I think there has been tremendous

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'd be happy to, although I will have a pro-positive review bias. -Marshall On Oct 11, 4:50 am, MaxTheMouse maxthemo...@googlemail.com wrote: I have put up a new package athttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/awebb/biopython-1.52.p0.spkg if someone would like to review it. Adam

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
One alternative would be to patch the test_Wise.py file so that instead of self.assert_(sys.stdout.getvalue().startswith(dnal -kbyte 10 seq1.fna seq2.fna)) within test_dnal we'd have self.assert_(sys.stdout.getvalue().startswith(dnal -kbyte 10) and similarly for test_psw. That would

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.2.rc0 released

2009-10-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have only one test failure on sage-4.1.2.rc0; I also had it on the alpha4: File /Volumes/E/sage-4.1.2.rc0/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/ cell.py, line 1601: sage: C.introspect_html() Expected: 'div class=docstring...span class=mathfoobar/span.../ div' Got: 'div

[sage-devel] Re: #sage-devel on irc

2009-09-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think Jason is in Iowa, not Idaho. Often confused by coastal folks, but very different. I was marveling at the broad distribution as well yesterday, its great to see. While developers are still mostly in Europe and the US, things are improving. I think we could probably benefit from more

[sage-devel] Re: Polynomial Factoring Content Problem

2009-09-30 Thread Marshall Hampton
Wow, that's quite disturbing. Did you make a trac ticket for this? -Marshall Hampton On Sep 30, 7:32 pm, AndyNovo a...@novocin.com wrote: Hi all, Found this simple bug in a simple Z[x] factoring example. R.x=PolynomialRing(ZZ) f = 12*x^10 + x^9 + 432*x^3 + 9011 g = 13*x^11 + 89*x^3 + 1

[sage-devel] Re: Sage component manuals

2009-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
So far that looks like a real improvement! I end up making my own bookmarks for useful but hard to find wiki pages, although I think in some cases I tried to edit the front page to put them there. Like http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpOnTheDoc and

[sage-devel] Re: taking a break from release management

2009-09-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
Sounds like a good idea. I think you've done a great job on the recent releases. Thanks, Marshall On Sep 29, 1:23 am, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I need to devote some serious time to my thesis project starting 01st October 2009. Before doing that, I would like to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.2.alpha4 released

2009-09-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had those two failures plus two in cell.py: File /Volumes/E/sage-4.1.2.alpha4/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/ cell.py, line 1601: sage: C.introspect_html() Expected: 'div class=docstring...span class=mathfoobar/span.../ div' Got: 'div class=docstringprefoobar/pre/div' and: File

[sage-devel] Re: unix

2009-09-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
One can do worse than Unix for Dummies. I can't really review it effectively, since I knew most of what's in it before getting it, but it seems pretty good for a total newbie. What was very helpful to me after I learned some basics was O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, but that might be overwhelming

[sage-devel] Re: unix

2009-09-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
Oh, no, sorry - somehow I skipped over the freely available part your request. My apologies. -Marshall On Sep 26, 6:15 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: One can do worse than Unix for Dummies

[sage-devel] Re: PIL decoder jpeg not available

2009-09-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm pretty sure I've fixed this once on a mac, but unfortunately I can't remember what I did. In fact, sadly, I'm not sure I knew what I did at the time, I just kept trying different things I until it worked. From your original link, I think we just have to correctly do option 5, i.e. edit the

[sage-devel] Re: survey: how many cpus do you have?

2009-09-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
Well said. It's clearly a big improvement, and simple. Works well on all the machines I have available. -Marshall On Sep 24, 7:04 pm, Dan Drake dr...@kaist.edu wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 at 08:32AM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: So, back to the original question: for parallel testing, can

[sage-devel] Re: Standard Sage Components (was Re: Solaris - what do we expect?)

2009-09-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
I proposed making the lrs spkg standard about a year ago; Micheal Abshoff then critiqued the optional spkg and gave me a list of things I needed to do. I think I have done all of them, and I would very much like to see lrs made standard to move the polytope functionality forward. I really

[sage-devel] Re: Review Day next Tuesday (22 Sep)

2009-09-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
Cool. Tuesdays aren't very good for me, but I will do my best to do some reviews that day. I will try to at least address some of the polytope-related patches. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 15, 3:46 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: We have been extremely blessed lately

[sage-devel] Re: experience with lulu

2009-09-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
Printing the color-highlighted docs in BW doesn't work very well. Its legible, but the lighter colors come out faint and hard to read. You can replace the PDF fairly easily. If you buy 25 or more copies, the price per copy falls a lot. Apart from the color-highlighting issue, I have been

[sage-devel] Re: Sage review in SIAM Review

2009-08-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
-server issues here. Thanks, Rob On Aug 27, 12:55 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: That link doesn't seem to work. -Marshall On Aug 27, 2:15 pm, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: Back in March, I solicited help with a review of Sage 3.4 for the Book

[sage-devel] Re: Sage review in SIAM Review

2009-08-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
That link doesn't seem to work. -Marshall On Aug 27, 2:15 pm, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: Back in March, I solicited help with a review of Sage 3.4 for the Book Reviews section of SIAM Review. That will appear soon as a Featured Review, and I've put up an un-edited preprint

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6? - review please!

2009-08-17 Thread Marshall Hampton
, it would be great if someone could review this! -Marshall Hampton On Jul 28, 10:44 am, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: Well,biopythondevelopment is pretty active right now, so 1.51 will have quite a few changes from the beta. There is still quite a lot of discussion about what

[sage-devel] Re: proposal to make PIL standard

2009-08-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm all in favor of PIL as standard. Does it install OK on Solaris? I can't think of any other objection. -Marshall On Aug 13, 6:32 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I'd like to suggest that PIL be made standard. This requires a vote. Though PIL is written in Python, the trac

[sage-devel] Re: easy reviews for Sage 4.1.1.final

2009-08-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'll try to do a few too. Btw, I have an easy to review patch at:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543 that brings tachyon coverage to 100%. If anyone can review that, I would appreciate it. -Marshall On Aug 11, 1:12 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at

[sage-devel] Re: easy reviews for Sage 4.1.1.final

2009-08-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I noticed you changed pyrex to Pyrex, which is fine, but should this just be changed to Cython everywhere? Do we ever use plain Pyrex as opposed to Cython? -Marshall On Aug 11, 1:06 pm, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, sage: So, mvngu. What have you been doing these last

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti) build problems

2009-08-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
and within a sage shell (sage -sh) running make all and python setup.py install, both packages can be imported in sage (sage: import nifti and sage: import mvpa) without error messages. A nifticlib-problem with pynifti-p0.spkg ? - Arvid Lundervold ... On Aug 7, 3:02 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-06 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have a proposed experimental pynifti package, tracked as ticket #6678: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6678 -Marshall On Aug 5, 10:23 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this was some sort of path issue I don't understand, but when I tried things again it seemed

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
relevant in biomedical imaging. -Marshall Hampton On Aug 5, 1:46 pm, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 5, 8:36 pm, Arvid arvid.lunderv...@gmail.com wrote: Will it be possible to incorporate access to NIfTI and ANALYZE files in SAGE through PyNIfTI (http

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and medical imaging (i.e. pynifti)

2009-08-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I forgot to cc my reply here, so anyone interested should perhaps respond on sage-support where the original post is. -Marshall On Aug 5, 10:12 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.comwrote: I gave this a shot

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2 and glpk spkgs

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm just editing the subject line to attract attention from people like Mike Hansen who might have done overlapping work. -Marshall On Jul 31, 11:03 am, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting it to recognize GMP. I'm

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
...@onetel.net wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Marshall Hampton wrote: I am trying to make an spkg for 4ti2, but I am having trouble getting it to recognize GMP. I'm sure many people on this list are more qualified than I am to figure that out. t4i2 requires the linear programming package glpk

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
: Marshall Hampton wrote: I agree, that doesn't sound good. At the moment, I just want to check out the sandpile functionality, so I don't think I will wade in and try to improve glpk, or bug the author to do so. On the positive side, I think I now have packages that install correctly

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
, and then maybe standard eventually. Just to be clear, I have felt that in the past the hurdle for becoming a standard package is too high. I just want the process to be consistent. -Marshall On Jul 31, 4:51 pm, Willem Jan Palenstijn w...@usecode.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:18:58PM -0700, Marshall

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2, glpk packages

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
to be consistent. -Marshall On Jul 31, 4:51 pm, Willem Jan Palenstijn w...@usecode.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:18:58PM -0700, Marshall Hampton wrote: I agree, that doesn't sound good. At the moment, I just want to check out the sandpile functionality, so I don't think I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.1.rc0 released

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
Stein: make openopt an optional spkg [Reviewed by David Joyner, Harald Schilly] #6506: Robert Bradshaw, Jason Grout: further numpy type conversions [Reviewed by Jason Grout, Robert Bradshaw, Minh Van Nguyen] #6542: Marshall Hampton: tachyon ouput seems broken in sage-4.1 [Reviewed by Tim Dumol

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package, 4ti2 and glpk spkgs

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
for 4ti2 and glpk, which might solve my problems. -Marshall On Jul 31, 11:15 am, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just editing the subject line to attract attention from people like Mike Hansen who might have done overlapping work. -Marshall On Jul 31, 11:03 am

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago. It was entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook. It went perfectly. Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in Mathematica's

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6?

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
for one. I am excited about their cleanup too, I think with a little more work biopython can be made a standard part of sage, but that will require a developer vote. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 26, 12:05 pm, tkeller thomas.e.kel...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the recent work upgrading the base python

[sage-devel] Re: how to submit upgraded biopython spkg for python-2.6?

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
). -Marshall On Jul 26, 12:25 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for pointing that out. I have made a 1.51b spkg, but decided to wait a week or two for the final 1.51 to come out. But I didn't realize that the 1.49b install was broken. Anyway if you have any interest

[sage-devel] Re: boost coverage by 0.5%

2009-07-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
You can get another .25% or so from: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543 -Marshall On Jul 24, 7:06 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, John H Palmierijhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: Want to boost doctest coverage in Sage by 0.5%? Review the

[sage-devel] Re: Catalan Numbers

2009-07-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
You could make the ultimate proof-without-words submission! I think this is cool, and although I am not a combinatorics person at all it seems reasonable as an addition to sage. I think it could underpin a really fantastic @interact. -Marshall On Jul 23, 1:20 am, Tom Boothby

[sage-devel] Re: TachyonPlot function in sage.plot.plot3d.tachyon: used?

2009-07-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
A patch is up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6543. I deleted the TachyonPlot class, which was not used anywhere and mostly undocumented. I can't find any record online of people using it or even talking about it. Who wrote it - Tom Boothby? I can't tell. If it has potential to

[sage-devel] Re: Python, Cython and JavaScript resources

2009-07-22 Thread Marshall Hampton
Nice, thats quite helpful. Thanks! On Jul 22, 1:24 pm, Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com wrote: Sage Wiki pages on Python, Cython, and JavaScript resources: http://wiki.sagemath.org/PythonResourceshttp://wiki.sagemath.org/JavascriptResources Currently, both are accessible from the wiki home

[sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
there will be more possibilities of moving things to javascript, as it gets nicer and the implementations speed up (for example, the recent work by William and John Palmieri on animations using javascript). Cheers, Marshall Hampton On Jul 21, 3:18 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks - i.e. I do the interactive stuff in advance. I'm not sure what is available on linux for this, but on the mac I use iShowU, which is commercial but only about $25 and cheerfully written and maintained by one guy. Of course

[sage-devel] Re: Central location for potential problems that may haunt us one day?

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
It seems best to just file a trac ticket - I'm not sure what the downside is to that. Perhaps we could make a new milestone for such issues, since they don't quite fit in feature or wishlist. But I think it would be confusing to do something apart from trac. -M. Hampton On Jul 21, 11:20 am,

[sage-devel] Re: Mac OS X .app technique

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
I would think that is what most people would want. -Marshall On Jul 21, 3:42 pm, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, gsw wrote: On 21 Jul., 22:13, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:25 AM, kcrisman

[sage-devel] Re: sage -upgrade via mirrors

2009-07-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hi Jan, I thought you could do something like: sage -upgrade ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/mirrors/www.sagemath.org/ i.e. you can give an explicit URL, but that doesn't seem to work. I guess the tarball needs to be unpacked on that mirror for it work - ? -Marshall On Jul 20, 7:56 am, Jan

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
I was curious, so I tried to apply the patch to 4.1 but it was rejected. It wasn't clear to me why, maybe it needs to be rebased. -Marshall On Jul 20, 3:27 pm, Robert Miller rlmills...@gmail.com wrote: Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the patches in trac #6342?

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: CoMarketing: Sage Sun

2009-07-19 Thread Marshall Hampton
- Are there specific Sage products that should be highlighted in an Open Source for Education campaign? If so, which ones and why? This seems like a tricky one - the key question I think is what is the audience of this marketing effort? Does it include K-12, or primarily undergraduate

[sage-devel] Re: Sage sandpiles package

2009-07-19 Thread Marshall Hampton
One minor typo: under Self-organized criticality, ascpect should be aspect. The documentation is excellent, that's quite impressive. As I am unfamiliar with the subject, I haven't absorbed enough of it to make really helpful comments but I will try to look more closely. One thing that comes to

[sage-devel] Re: Tachyon still working?

2009-07-17 Thread Marshall Hampton
. -Marshall On Jul 16, 12:27 pm, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I have added a patch that fixes this, available at: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6542/trac_65... Since tachyon is currently broken on all systems in sage-4.1, I fixed the immediate problem rather

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for inclusion of Frobby spkg

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
Does it work on Solaris? My impression is that is a required feature now for standard inclusion. -M. Hampton On Jul 16, 9:00 am, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Bjarke Hammersholt Rounebjarke.ro...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Frobby has an extensive

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for inclusion of Frobby spkg

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
()’: src/test/TestSuite.cpp:43: error: ‘sort’ was not declared in this scope make: *** [bin/shared/test/TestSuite.o] Error 1 -Marshall On Jul 16, 10:39 am, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Marshall Hampton wrote: Does it work on Solaris? My impression is that is a required

[sage-devel] Re: Tachyon still working?

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
of tachyon.py. That is now trac ticket #6542: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542 If anyone has already started fixing the coverage of the tachyon.py files, please let me know so I don't duplicate effort. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 16, 6:50 am, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote

[sage-devel] Re: Error with Tachyon.show()

2009-07-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
Are you using sage 4.1? Unfortunately the tachyon interface got broken in that release, but there is a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6542 which will fix this in 4.1.1. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 16, 4:36 pm, Marcello Seri marcello.s...@gmail.com wrote: I'm learning

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and Singular Talk

2009-07-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
On page 28, imature should be immature. On page 46, montsh should be months. On page 47, test should be tests. On page 48, plattforms should be platforms. Cheers, Marshall On Jul 15, 5:25 am, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Hi there, next week I'll visit the Singular

[sage-devel] Re: ._ files

2009-07-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
Helpful post on avoiding this: http://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/22/tar ...upshot is that one should add export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true to your profile if using leopard, or COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true if using tiger or previous stuff (I don't think many sage developers are using

[sage-devel] Re: OSSC2009 conference

2009-07-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think the answer is probably no, since the (extended) submission deadline is over, but they don't have a posted schedule yet. It appears to be very Scilab-focused. -M.Hampton On Jul 13, 3:07 pm, Hazem hazem.biqa...@gmail.com wrote: Will Sage be represented in this conference?

[sage-devel] Fwd: SAGE lecturer needed

2009-07-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
I think this is worth forwarding here since I suspect many qualified people don't read sage-edu much. -M. Hampton -- Forwarded message -- From: jan.groenew...@gmail.com Date: Jun 24, 6:13 am Subject: SAGE lecturer needed To: sage-edu Hi, The African Institute for

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1

2009-07-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I do get one test failure still, from a deprecation warning about using popen2 instead of the subprocess module: sage -t devel/sage/sage/parallel/decorate.py /Volumes/E/sage-4.1/local/lib/python2.6/os.py:669: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the

[sage-devel] Re: sources

2009-07-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
Seems like it might be worth it to save 65 MB! The 7z source is small and looks pretty portable. -M. Hampton On Jul 9, 9:37 am, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 5:20 pm, Kevin Horton khorto...@rogers.com wrote: I have tried compressing the sage.*.tar files using

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
Yes, that mathematica code could be made much more concise. Its definitely not a fair comparison. Also, one reason its so long is that the graphical output has been massaged to look like matlab/ matplotlib. I think a more mathematica-native display wouldn't need so many options changed.

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.rc1

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Hampton
is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. sage -t devel/sage/sage/plot/axes.py A mysterious error (perhaps a memory error?) occurred, which may have crashed doctest. -Marshall Hampton On Jul 8, 1:09 am, Robert Miller rlmills...@gmail.com wrote: All known issues have been fixed, and all long doctests

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Marshall Hampton
I made some other copies on Lulu, with more elaborate covers, of all the documentation, for the 2009 joint meetings. I have been planning on doing that again with the new docs but haven't gotten around to it. -Marshall On Jul 6, 10:25 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: William

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.alpha3

2009-07-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
On an intel mac running 10.4.11, I get: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/doc/fr/tutorial/programming.rst sage -t devel/sage/sage/misc/darwin_utilities.pyx sage -t devel/sage/sage/misc/sagedoc.py sage -t devel/sage/sage/parallel/decorate.py

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.alpha1

2009-06-25 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got the following on an intel mac, 10.4.11, not sure which are known or unknown issues at this point: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/doc/fr/tutorial/programming.rst sage -t devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py sage -t

[sage-devel] Re: MEGA talk

2009-06-18 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm having trouble uploading this to anything. On my own laptop, after a long time I get header line too long. I gave up waiting for sagenb to load it after about 10 minutes. -Marshall On Jun 17, 10:19 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wrote my MEGA plenary talk, which I'm

[sage-devel] Re: sage 4.0.2.rc3 released

2009-06-18 Thread Marshall Hampton
All tests passed on an intel mac pro running 10.4.11. The tests took 6975 seconds, which seems like a big increase from 3.0.2 (4818 seconds) and 3.4 (5358 seconds). Is this simply because of the additional doctests, or are there serious speed regressions somewhere? I recall some discussion

[sage-devel] Re: Nelder-Mead Simplices Algorithm for Minimization.

2009-06-16 Thread Marshall Hampton
There is a simplex method implemented in scipy.optimize, I think its the default for the function fmin (see http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html for instance). On the other hand, the scipy functions are very float-oriented, so if your implementation could handle more

[sage-devel] Re: div and curl

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, I'll try to improve it then. -Marshall On Jun 14, 11:10 pm, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Jun-09, at 8:56 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: I care, I have written div and curl routines for my multivariable calc classes before, but they were more hackish than yours. I

[sage-devel] Re: Strange behaviour with loading files and numpy

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm not sure what is happening but I would guess that at some point the ^(1/2) gets turned into ^(0), and then your standard deviation goes from .06... to 1. I.e., it seems like maybe the preparser doesn't catch these nested loadings. -M. Hampton On Jun 15, 1:54 pm, Pogon vic...@saase.net

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.2.rc0 released

2009-06-15 Thread Marshall Hampton
I only got the known singular.pyx and and number_field_element.pyx failures on an intel mac running 10.4.11. -M. Hampton On Jun 15, 1:13 am, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Here's Sage 4.0.2.rc0. Come and get it while it's hot:

[sage-devel] Re: div and curl

2009-06-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I care, I have written div and curl routines for my multivariable calc classes before, but they were more hackish than yours. I will try to review that ticket soon, if no one beats me to it. -Marshall On Jun 14, 4:06 pm, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea if this is

[sage-devel] Re: polymake and other optional spkg

2009-06-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I care about the polymake spkg, and I know a few users who do too. It would be nice to fix it; the last time I tried to install it I got some errors I didn't understand at all so I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. Its probably out of date anyway, so it might be best to start from scratch

[sage-devel] Re: Determining platform when building an spkg

2009-06-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
The following is the beginning of the optional phcpack spkg, which tries to get the architecture using python. I am hopeless at bash, I'm sure there are ways to do it that way too: #!/usr/bin/env python import os uname = os.uname() main_arch = uname[0] sub_arch = uname[-1] then for example if

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
That sounds awesome - convert the entire Sage development process to an online RPG, where the basic quests are merging tickets! -Marshall On Jun 9, 3:34 am, Craig Citro craigci...@gmail.com wrote: I've been thinking about writing something like this up for a while now, but there's never

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.rc0 (rc2)

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had two failures on an intel mac running 10.4 (for rc2): sage -t devel/sage/sage/numerical/optimize.py sage -t devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py The relation.py failures: sage -t devel/sage/sage/symbolic/relation.py

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Grand Tour

2009-06-05 Thread Marshall Hampton
I realize you are trying to keep it concise, but I have 2 suggestions for geometry and interfaces: geometry: p = polytopes.twenty_four_cell() show(p.render_wireframe(), frame = False) and interfaces (Gfan): r3.x,y,z = PolynomialRing(QQ,3) vort_ideal = r3.ideal([-6*x*y*z+x*y+x*z+6*y*z-y^2-z^2,

[sage-devel] Re: Release Management

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
Personally I would prefer that release coordination be done on sage- devel, rather than a seperate mailing list. But I am probably in a minority of how I interact with such things (I only read these on the web, not email for example). Maybe some day there could be a sage days devoted to

[sage-devel] Re: bug in plot3d?

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have given a positive review. I didn't do a huge amount of testing but it seems like a very straightforward patch. -Marshall On Jun 2, 3:34 am, William Cauchois wcauc...@u.washington.edu wrote: A fix is up at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6184, and needs a review! On Mon, Jun

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-02 Thread Marshall Hampton
For some reason, it now seems very difficult to quit the notebook with 4.0.1.alpha: ^C2009-06-02 07:17:02-0500 [-] Saving notebook... ^C2009-06-02 07:20:20-0500 [-] Saving notebook... ^C^C ...usually I just have to wait a few seconds. -Marshall On Jun 1, 11:32 am, Mike Hansen

[sage-devel] Re: sage blog aggregation : planet.sagemath.org

2009-06-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hey Minh, Thanks for working on planet sage! I think having it look better and including more blogs could be very beneficial for Sage. -Marshall On May 31, 5:38 pm, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Harald, On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Harald Schilly

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.1.alpha0 released!

2009-06-01 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got one failure on an intel mac (10.5): sage -t devel/sage/sage/misc/html.py ** File /Users/mh/sagestuff/wsage3/devel/sage/sage/misc/html.py, line 157: sage: html.table([(i, j, i == j) for i in [0..1] for j in [0..1]])

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc2 released!

2009-05-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
All tests passed on an Ubuntu 8.10 machine. -Marshall On May 29, 4:47 pm, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hello, Sage 4.0.rc2 has been released.  Assuming that nothing catastrophic happens, this will become 4.0.  The tarball can be found at

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc1 released!

2009-05-28 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had the same two numerical noise type failures in matrix2.pyx and expression.pyx, on an intel mac running 10.5. Those were the only failures. -M. Hampton On May 28, 6:04 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hello, Sage 4.0.rc1 has been released. This should

[sage-devel] Re: reviewing tickets

2009-05-27 Thread Marshall Hampton
I wonder if there could be an online mechanism for suggesting reviewers. Sometimes I look at a patch, and I think (for example) I'm not sure I can review this well, but I bet X or Y could I don't want to assign them the ticket, since that seems overbearing. I know I would want to be

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-24 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had all the same failures as John on my apple 10.5 laptop, except the graph_plot failure. This was from a fresh build, not an upgrade. -M. Hampton On May 21, 10:11 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On May 21, 7:14 am, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I gotta

[sage-devel] Re: Web page looks pretty poor compared to Mathematica's

2009-05-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
I would just like to second this - exchange help and documentation. -M. Hampton On May 23, 11:43 am, bump b...@match.stanford.edu wrote: I agree that the sage web page is good, and preferrable to the mathematica page. I have one constructive comment, which is that one gets misled in

[sage-devel] Re: sage blog aggregation : planet.sagemath.org

2009-05-23 Thread Marshall Hampton
I have a tiny bit of experience with setting up a planet aggregator, but I didn't get very far. So I am not volunteering to take over, but I might be able to help Minh or whoever on IRC or by email. When I was doing this a year ago or so, I found the planet documentation to be pretty minimal.

[sage-devel] Re: click on a plot to select a point, using interact

2009-05-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
when both coordinates are changed. But that's a minor issue: what I'd really like is to click on the graph to select the point. Is this in your wishlist too? Some initial work has already been done towards this. Seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3866 Marshall Hampton had

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Horizon (comments)

2009-05-17 Thread Marshall Hampton
On May 17, 11:13 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: * at the very end of the presentation there was a discussion about numeric stuff. There are tons of computational programs in lots of fields (atomic physics, quantum field theory, electromagnetics, electronic structure calculations,

[sage-devel] Re: Linear Algebra QuickRef

2009-05-10 Thread Marshall Hampton
Fantastic, thanks for distributing this! Is the latex file available too? -Marshall Hampton On May 9, 12:00 am, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: I've put together a quick reference sheet (two pages) for linear algebra commands in Sage. I'll do a bit more clean-up on this before

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