[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-21 Thread Bill Hart
On Aug 20, 10:09 pm, Martin Albrecht wrote: > One more thing: let's just have a formal vote now and not bent the rules. It's important to have rules so that we have something to bend. But if you insist: > So: > [X] yes, c'mon why isn't it included already > [] yes but write a paper about it fir

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Alex Ghitza
> [X] yes include it as standard > [] yes but have it as optional SPKG first > [] I don't care > [] no don't include Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com T

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > >> So: >> [X] yes include it as standard agreed, +1 >> [] yes but have it as optional SPKG first >> [] I don't care >> [] no don't include > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Rob Beezer
> So: > [X] yes include it as standard > [] yes but have it as optional SPKG first > [] I don't care > [] no don't include -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more opt

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Harald Schilly
+1 from me for standard package. H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sage

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Jason Grout
[X] yes include it as standard [ ] yes but have it as optional SPKG first [ ] I don't care [ ] no don't include I agree in principle, though I haven't reviewed any of the spkg. Jason -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Martin Albrecht
One more thing: let's just have a formal vote now and not bent the rules. If there's sufficient interest in this then it will survive an additional vote. Here's the description again: M4RIE is a library for dense linear algebra over GF(2^e). It is heavily based on M4RI and is written by me. It

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Saturday 20 August 2011, Simon King wrote: > Hi William, hi Martin, > > On 20 Aug., 21:56, William Stein wrote: > > My impression is that this is *not* a totally new spkg, but simply > > some additional code of a similar nature being included in an existing > > spkg.If so, no formal vote i

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Simon King
Hi William, hi Martin, On 20 Aug., 21:56, William Stein wrote: > My impression is that this is *not* a totally new spkg, but simply > some additional code of a similar nature being included in an existing > spkg.    If so, no formal vote is required for this, just positive > review of the ticket

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: >> And I hope you don't mind that I asked here: I thought that the wish >> to add it as a standard package was implicit in your opening the >> ticket. > > I don't understand the question. Yep, I wanted it to become standard when I > opened i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Martin Albrecht
> And I hope you don't mind that I asked here: I thought that the wish > to add it as a standard package was implicit in your opening the > ticket. I don't understand the question. Yep, I wanted it to become standard when I opened it and I still would like that to happen. Cheers, Martin -- nam

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin, On 20 Aug., 19:36, Martin Albrecht wrote: > we did have some sort of vote before > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/1794b8985d788004/ > > which left me with the impression that it was accepted. I was not aware of that thread (I think you didn't mention

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Martin Albrecht
> IIRC, adding a standard spkg also requires someone in charge of its > maintenance for at least two years; maybe ask Martin...? ;-) This is new to me but it makes sense. Of course, I will look after maintaining this library's SPKG. Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.e

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread leif
On 20 Aug., 16:34, Simon King wrote: > Martin Albrecht had opened #9562 and proposed to use M4RIE as default > for matrices over GF(2^e). If I understand correctly, the package > builds fine on all supported platforms (including Cygwin). > > The ticket is almost getting a positive review from me,

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I am all for it, but shouldn't it become an optional package first? Dima -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.c

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Simon King
PS: I forgot to ask another question. Provided that we decide to make it a standard package: Should the new module for matrices over GF(2^e) be included in the reference manual? Without any exception, all methods are either cdef resp. underscore (hence, will not be in the reference manual anywa