[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-11 Thread Bobby Moretti
This error seems to be due to the python install that you're using. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which python /usr/local/bin/python It seems to get past this step if you do: /usr/bin/python /home/yqiang/planet/planet.py /home/yqiang/planetsage/fancy/config.ini the python interpreter at /usr/bin/python i

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrapper: pygame). I am worried about yet another "multimedia framework". We should have less of those instead of more. Michel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

[sage-devel] since we all really love talking about licensing...

2007-12-11 Thread David Harvey
Hi guys, I am writing a library for polynomial arithmetic which I might eventually like to see included in Sage. (It is not presently part of FLINT, but maybe one day it will be.) I would like to release it simultaneously under GPL v2 and GPL v3. I specifically do not want to use the claus

[sage-devel] Re: since we all really love talking about licensing...

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 6:18 AM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I am writing a library for polynomial arithmetic which I might > eventually like to see included in Sage. (It is not presently part of > FLINT, but maybe one day it will be.) > > I would like to release it simultaneo

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrapper: pygame). > I am worried about yet another "multimedia framework". We should have > less of those instead of more. I think you can just do 2D things easily in pyga

[sage-devel] Fwd: having authors names in .py files

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 11, 2007 1:44 AM Subject: Re: having authors names in .py files To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw your mail about putting author names in source files, in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/brow

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 5:20 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrapper: pygame). > > I am worried about yet another "multimedia framework". We should have > > less

[sage-devel] a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread Joel B. Mohler
Hi, I've noticed a very recent regression -- it worked 2 months ago. sage: t=var('t') sage: f=t*cos(0) sage: float(f(1)) 1.0 sage: f=t*sin(0) sage: float(f(1)) Traceback... : float() argument must be a string or a number -- Joel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: having authors names in .py files

2007-12-11 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 11, 5:15 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Dec 11, 2007 1:44 AM > Subject: Re: having authors names in .py files > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I saw your mail about putting author names in

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 8:39 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've noticed a very recent regression -- it worked 2 months ago. > > sage: t=var('t') > sage: f=t*cos(0) > sage: float(f(1)) > 1.0 > sage: f=t*sin(0) > sage: float(f(1)) > Traceback... > : float() argument must be a str

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
By the way, this is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1460 On Dec 11, 2007 8:53 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 8:39 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've noticed a very recent regression -- it worked 2 months ago. > >

[sage-devel] Bug Day 7 proposal: Sat. Dec. 14th. 2007

2007-12-11 Thread mabshoff
I would like to propose that the next Bug Day is held on Friday, Dec. 14th. 2007. That is the day after the planned release date for 2.9. Procedure, timing and so on as always. Thoughts? Cheers, Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Bug Day 7 proposal: Fri. Dec. 14th. 2007

2007-12-11 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 11, 7:10 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > I would like to propose that the next Bug Day is held on Friday, Dec. > 14th. 2007. That is the day after the planned release date for 2.9. > Sorry: To be clear: I mean *Friday* > Procedure, timing and so on as always. > > T

[sage-devel] syntax for .subs(t=1) vs .subs(t, 1)

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, there is an inconsistency problem with subs: sage: e = x**2 + 1 sage: e x^2 + 1 sage: e.subs(x= x**2) x^4 + 1 sage: e.subs(x**2= x) File "", line 1 : keyword can't be an expression (, line 1) sage: e.subs(x**2, x) -

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 5:53 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007 8:39 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've noticed a very recent regression -- it worked 2 months ago. > > > > sage: t=var('t') > > sage: f=t*cos(0) > > sage: float(f(1)) > > 1.0

[sage-devel] Re: syntax for .subs(t=1) vs .subs(t, 1)

2007-12-11 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:28:24PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Hi, > > there is an inconsistency problem with subs: > > sage: e = x**2 + 1 > sage: e > x^2 + 1 > sage: e.subs(x= x**2) > x^4 + 1 > sage: e.subs(x**2= x) > >File "

[sage-devel] Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Selim Tuncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 11, 2007 10:37 AM Subject: SAGE To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> William, The story about SAGE is now on the UW main page: http://www.washington.edu/ Selim -- William Stein Associate Professor of

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
> First I cannot reproduce it on 2.8.14 (so it's probably only a bug in > 2.8.15?): > > $ ./sage > -- > | SAGE Version 2.8.14, Release Date: 2007-11-24 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for inf

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 5:20 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2007 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrapper: pygame). >>> I am worried about yet another "multimedia framework". We

[sage-devel] cddlib094b spkg

2007-12-11 Thread mhampton
Hey, I just tried to install the optional polymake package on a fresh 2.8.15 installation, and it looks like the cddlib094b spkg has been renamed to cddlib094b.p0.spkg, so polymake can't find it. I could fix that manually on my system, but I think the polymake installation needs a tweak. I can

[sage-devel] Re: cddlib094b spkg

2007-12-11 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 11, 8:56 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > Hey Marshall, > I just tried to install the optional polymake package on a fresh > 2.8.15 installation, and it looks like the cddlib094b spkg has been > renamed to cddlib094b.p0.spkg, so polymake can't find it. I could fix > tha

[sage-devel] Re: syntax for .subs(t=1) vs .subs(t, 1)

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 10:58 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:28:24PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > there is an inconsistency problem with subs: > > > > sage: e = x**2 + 1 > > sage: e > > x^2 + 1 > > sage: e.subs(x= x**2) > > x^4 + 1 > > sag

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:53 AM, William Stein wrote: > One possible solution would be to call simplify before > doing float(...) -- but that could greatly slow symbolic calculus > down in some cases. This could be attempted only on failure, which wouldn't have a performance impact in most cases.

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 8:18 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007 5:20 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Dec 11, 2007 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrap

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 12:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:53 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > One possible solution would be to call simplify before > > doing float(...) -- but that could greatly slow symbolic calculus > > down in some cases. > > This could be at

[sage-devel] Re: syntax for .subs(t=1) vs .subs(t, 1)

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, > > How do you know that I didn't want to view f more like g? What if I > > simplify g > > or do something else that rewrites g in some equivalent form that doesn't > > show > > the x^2 quite so obviously. > > > > I think this might be able to be carefully defined from a computational > >

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No offense! I have no strong feelings on this issue. But I am always worried when I see a new 1.0 open source project. It seems people prefer to start from scratch rather than enhancing an existing mature project. I see that python-opengl now uses ctypes as well. So it should work on any distribu

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 9:48 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007 12:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:53 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > One possible solution would be to call simplify before > > > doing float(...) -- but that c

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 9:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No offense! I have no strong feelings on this issue. > But I am always worried when I see a new 1.0 open source project. It > seems people > prefer to start from scratch rather than enhancing an existing mature > project. A

[sage-devel] Re: cddlib094b spkg

2007-12-11 Thread mhampton
OK, its now ticket #1463. The required changes are minimal; the spkg- install should have: SAGE_GMP_VERSION="4.2.1.p12" CDDLIB_VERSION="094b.p0" Cheers, Marshall On Dec 11, 2:01 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Dec 11, 8:56 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

[sage-devel] Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-11 Thread John Voight
Hi, Is it possible to automatically login the VMware appliance as "sage"? I've discovered that my army of machines running Sage under VMware get tired out after running for a long time--I guess that this arises from a combination of effects coming from running under Windows in the first place (!

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-11 Thread Yi Qiang
Hey John, I don't have the virtual machine installed, but if you google for "automatic login linux", you will find a couple solutions. It seems that modifying /etc/inittab is the best way to go and there is a tutorial here: http://easymamecab.mameworld.net/html/autologin.htm Let me know if that

[sage-devel] Re: Auto-login under VMware

2007-12-11 Thread Nils Bruin
> On Dec 11, 2007 3:08 PM, John Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Is it possible to automatically login the VMware appliance as "sage"? You may have other reasons for wanting to have someone logged in automatically and I don't use the VMs mysef, so perhaps I am suggesting something

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-newbie] Using the sage notebook

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 2:56 PM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Questions: > > 1. Can I prevent wrapping in output cells of the notebook? With > wrapping, matrix displays are often indecipherable. If I switch to > text view, I can see the output fine, because there is no wrapping, > instead a

[sage-devel] Re: a recent bug in symbolic calc

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 8:39 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've noticed a very recent regression -- it worked 2 months ago. > > sage: t=var('t') > sage: f=t*cos(0) > sage: float(f(1)) > 1.0 > sage: f=t*sin(0) > sage: float(f(1)) > Traceback... > : float() argument must be a str

[sage-devel] another article on sage

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
Hi, Another article on sage, which is just a summary of the press release... http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009426590 I also made the "In the News" link at the top of sagemath.org point to http://wiki.sagemath.org/SAGE_in_the_News which David Joyner setup, and put the above article t

[sage-devel] Re: cddlib094b spkg

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 2:34 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, its now ticket #1463. The required changes are minimal; the spkg- > install should have: > > SAGE_GMP_VERSION="4.2.1.p12" > CDDLIB_VERSION="094b.p0" > > Cheers, > Marshall I incorporated your fixes into the package. Please tr

[sage-devel] #975: setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2007-12-11 Thread Jason Grout
Recently scratching and itching because of trying Williams pyglet example and having it blow up on Ubuntu 7.10, I implemented the suggestion at #975 and posted a patch. The patch fixes the following: sage: !external-command to launch an external command. However, I can't figure out how to s

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Dec 11, 2007 1:14 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007 9:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No offense! I have no strong feelings on this issue. > > But I am always worried when I see a new 1.0 open source project. It > > seems people > > pre

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-11 Thread Yi Qiang
Thanks Bobby, I'll try to set up planet.sagemath.org when finals are over :) In the mean time, anyone (William?) care to write a introductory blog article that we can feature when it's all up and running? You do not have to wait for planetsage to be running to do this! Cheers, Yi http://yiqiang

[sage-devel] Re: pyglet for 3D graphics

2007-12-11 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 1:14 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2007 9:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> No offense! I have no strong feelings on this issue. >>> But I am always worried when I see a new 1.0 open source project. It >>> se

[sage-devel] "Sage package on the best scientific and open source"

2007-12-11 Thread William Stein
Hi, Check out this Russian article about Sage, whose title translates to "Sage package on the best scientific and open source": http://rnd.cnews.ru/math/news/line/index_science.shtml?2007/12/10/278779 . Carl Witty points out that they actually give a reasonable list of what Sage can do and do

[sage-devel] Re: Demo of 3D applets working in the notebook

2007-12-11 Thread Ted Kosan
Fernando wrote: > I certainly wasn't trying to dissuade Ted from 'scratching his itch', > I hope it didn't come across that way. Rather my suggestion was for > what *I* see as possibly better tools to scratch said itch. I > actually happen to *really* like Ted's idea of a local client that is >