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

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
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, at least on my own mac. They are

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

2009-07-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
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, at

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

2009-07-31 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.netwrote: 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

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

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'm not disagreeing, I just don't know how to quickly change that. If someone can give me some tips I will at least patch the spkgs. -Marshall On Jul 31, 4:21 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.netwrote:

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

2009-07-31 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
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 will wade in and try to improve glpk, or bug the author to do so. On the positive side, I think I now

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

2009-07-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Marshall Hampton wrote: I'm not disagreeing, I just don't know how to quickly change that. If someone can give me some tips I will at least patch the spkgs. -Marshall There may be no quick fix, though the code did not look very large, so I doubt it would be a huge job to do it properly.

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

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
Thanks for pointing that out. I am somewhat disturbed by the positive review for that becoming a standard package, which seems inconsistent with previous policy. In #6663 I am merely suggesting 4ti2 and glpk as experimental packages, with the idea of transitioning them to optional, and then

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

2009-07-31 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Marshall Hamptonhampto...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for pointing that out.  I am somewhat disturbed by the positive review for that becoming a standard package, which seems inconsistent I don't know where you got that. I was the reviewer and I clearly said

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

2009-07-31 Thread Marshall Hampton
I got from Minh's comment: Once #6502 gets positive review, this SPKG could then be merged in the Sage standard packages repository. -Marshall On Jul 31, 6:20 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Marshall Hamptonhampto...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

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

2009-07-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Marshall, On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Marshall Hamptonhampto...@gmail.com wrote: I got from Minh's comment: Once #6502 gets positive review, this SPKG could then be merged in the Sage standard packages repository. That was a typo on my part. It should be optional instead of