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

2015-06-03 Thread kcrisman
Apparently sympy can't do it either (?). Here is my experiment. Sorry, I don't see how your code below is testing Sympy. It wasn't, that was just an off-hand remark. The testing was for the actual problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-devel] Re: The SageMath Foundation

2015-06-01 Thread kcrisman
would be best (e.g. for granting purposes), or possibly multiple such - I have no particular opinion on that, but wanted to remind of those discussions. It would be worth talking to R or GAP or other folks on this, perhaps. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[sage-devel] Re: MathJax limit for TeX expression in notebook

2015-05-30 Thread kcrisman
+1 to this. What is the best course of action? Opening a ticket? Can you figure out where to change this in Sage first? Then opening a ticket seems reasonable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Re: Right queue for documentation tickets

2015-05-29 Thread kcrisman
I have been doing some documentation polishing to functions of posets and lattices. (For example http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18489 ) Should they be ticket on documentation or in combinatorics? Probably wherever you think it's more likely that people who will review it will see it.

[sage-devel] Re: MathJax limit for TeX expression in notebook

2015-05-28 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 5:21:01 PM UTC-4, Michal Bejger wrote: Dear Sage Devs, I have a question related to the limited length of a TeX expression rendered by MathJax in the notebook - the variable responsible for it is MAXBUFFER [1], and its default value is 5*1024 (5KB), which

[sage-devel] Re: documentation bug: git-trac instructions don't mention git commit

2015-05-28 Thread kcrisman
I won't recommend '-a'. Explicit addition of files using 'git add' is safer as to you do not accidentally push too much upstream... I 100% agree, esp. since sometimes there are extra changes lying around - one of the few places I like git better than Mercurial. I think I mentioned

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python 3 and the sage notebook

2015-05-26 Thread kcrisman
Personally, I'm fine with EOL for SageNB in 2020 together with Python 2.x. IMHO we should focus our energy on having a superior alternative ready by then. +1 At some point hopefully soon Jupyter notebook should be a sufficient replacement to sagenb, due to excellent work of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: what needs deprecation?

2015-05-26 Thread kcrisman
I vote for a case-by-case basis, but with a bias towards not deprecating. Same but with (slight) bias toward deprecating, in terms of things like this. I disagree that from sage.module.cool_but_hidden import SolveRiemannHypothesis SolveRiemannHypothesis() changing to from

[sage-devel] Re: 404 Error: page not found

2015-05-26 Thread kcrisman
Click Changelog on http://www.sagemath.org/ Correct. Jeroen has the script for this - we also need to run it for 6.6 and 6.7. As always, I'm happy to do the proofreading... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe

[sage-devel] Re: Python 3 and the sage notebook

2015-05-26 Thread kcrisman
In the interest of reducing the work required for supporting Python 3, unless there is some champion out there who wants to do the hard work making sagenb work with Python 3, the sage notebook will not be joining the rest of sage with Python 3. That would be really bad for backward

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python 3 and the sage notebook

2015-05-26 Thread kcrisman
I mean that you will continue to be able to use sagenb under Python 2 (which Sage should support for a good long while), but unless someone ports sagenb to also work under Python 3, then you will not be able to use sagenb with sage on sagenb when you build sage with Python 3. Oh. So we

[sage-devel] Re: Trac git interface half broken?

2015-05-22 Thread kcrisman
The object is not on the git server (or not referenced by a branch). $ git show 2341c22ee7ce66cd1cf80949b1a7c9a4f6e5431f fatal: bad object 2341c22ee7ce66cd1cf80949b1a7c9a4f6e5431f If you pushed something while the git repo was out of disk space then it was NOT uploaded The point is

[sage-devel] Re: Trac error

2015-05-21 Thread kcrisman
http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17018 -- Trac detected an internal error: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpTo_W1D' I'm getting this too, basically the same error. http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/2536 But consistently so! 253{7,8,9} work fine reproducibly. --

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Trac error

2015-05-21 Thread kcrisman
I'm getting this too, basically the same error. http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/2536 But consistently so! 253{7,8,9} work fine reproducibly. The name of the temporary file should change each time you consult the webpage... Correct, for the ones that don't work, thanks

[sage-devel] Re: Trac git interface half broken?

2015-05-21 Thread kcrisman
In case the one in charge was not aware, it seems the trac git interface is half broken. For instance, http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/diff/?id=2341c22ee7ce66cd1cf80949b1a7c9a4f6e5431f shows no diff. I can confirm this - e.g.

[sage-devel] Re: trac milestone update

2015-05-19 Thread kcrisman
Admin - Milestones Check the relevant radio button in the Default column Duh! I saw those buttons and somehow didn't see the title of that column - presumably because I was squandering all my time at the bottom looking for how to format it. Sorry for wasting your time, thanks for that.

[sage-devel] Re: European Horizon 2020 project OpenDreamKit accepted

2015-05-19 Thread kcrisman
Yes! Congratulations! We are delighted to announce that the Horizon 2020 research proposal OpenDreamKit was accepted by the European commission: opendreamkit.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe

[sage-devel] Re: trac milestone update

2015-05-19 Thread kcrisman
I just created a new trac ticket and noticed that the default Milestone was set to 6.7, with no higher verson avaioable yet. I chose sage-pending for now, but I presume someone must know how to get that default changed to 6.8. I've added the 6.8 milestone but I don't know how to get

Re: [sage-devel] Re: possibly useful git game-like tutorial

2015-05-18 Thread kcrisman
I'd be happy to add it to http://www.sagemath.org/git-developer-guide/git_background.html#tutorials-and-summaries, say. Just send a patch ;-) I'll try to look at a few resources and try them out in the next day or two, I think that (for those with the time) having a few gamified

[sage-devel] Re: A database of interesting graphs

2015-05-18 Thread kcrisman
A group of people here at my UNI wants to start creating databases storing interesting graphs and some of their (non-trivial to compute) invariants. The idea is to then make them available through optional Sage spkg's. Our aim is to start with cubic vertex transitive graphs which were

Re: [sage-devel] please review #18320

2015-05-18 Thread kcrisman
There are a *lot* of tickets which are short, fix bugs, increase speed and are waiting for reviews. If all authors are advertising their tickets it will become a nightmare on sage-devel. If you want your ticket reviewed, it would be better: - looks for somebody that is likely to do

Re: [sage-devel] please review #18320

2015-05-18 Thread kcrisman
. - kcrisman -- 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 group, send email to sage-devel

Re: [sage-devel] Re: possibly useful git game-like tutorial

2015-05-16 Thread kcrisman
Why not just link to the main git homepage at http://git-scm.com/ and let people find further links there for learning git? Because maybe those links aren't as user-friendly? I'm just throwing out suggestions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-devel] possibly useful git game-like tutorial

2015-05-15 Thread kcrisman
There are a few free git try me things available. https://try.github.io/ http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/ Does anyone have an opinion on whether we should include links to these in the doc somewhere, or are they not worth it? Just FYI. -- You received this message because you are

[sage-devel] Re: Broken links to doc already appearing

2015-05-15 Thread kcrisman
One side effect is that we are currently unable to download http://www.sagemath.org/packages/upstream/configure/configure-84.tar.gz and so to make a fresh install. Another side effect is that apparently the most recent configure version in Sage is 92, or so package-version.txt says,

[sage-devel] Re: possibly useful git game-like tutorial

2015-05-15 Thread kcrisman
https://try.github.io/ http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/ Does anyone have an opinion on whether we should include links to these in the doc somewhere, or are they not worth it? Just FYI. On a related note for those scared of Git, apparently (?) on Mac you can get Git AND

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage's changelog

2015-05-14 Thread kcrisman
The other general issue is related to managing files, the release process and the workflow as the whole group. Volker is in contact with me, but even the smallest silent assumptions or misunderstandings lead to hiccups. Only when it breaks you realize which elements were vital and which

[sage-devel] Broken links to doc already appearing

2015-05-14 Thread kcrisman
I did a Google search for something. Guess what? http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/graphs/sage/graphs/graph_latex.html 404 not found Basically, EVERYTHING that anyone will link to that isn't just sagemath.org/doc will give a 404. There must be a lot of such links around. Also,

[sage-devel] Re: Broken links to doc already appearing

2015-05-14 Thread kcrisman
I did a Google search for something. Guess what? http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/graphs/sage/graphs/graph_latex.html Sorry, my main point was that Google has the broken link as its top recommendation, and may not find out where to update for some time. -- You received this

[sage-devel] Re: Sage's changelog

2015-05-13 Thread kcrisman
If you or someone else is messing around a bit with the doc, note that currently http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ gives a 404 error for Github Pages ?!?! and I'm sure this is connected to not being able to download packages when using git pull to update your repo. -- You received this message

[sage-devel] Re: max(sin(x),cos(x)) = sin(x)

2015-05-12 Thread kcrisman
Okay, so what do we do with this bug? I think Nils explained the situation pretty well. Making max/min be mathematical would definitely require some nontrivial effort. I don't know that I'm in favor of adding a third boolean option, though of course Maxima has various outcomes for e.g.

[sage-devel] Re: Use mirrors

2015-05-12 Thread kcrisman
I'm surprised that there wouldn't be any US institution willing to host a mirror. There is a mirror at MIT, both http and rsync: http://mirrors.mit.edu/sage/ rsync://mirrors.mit.edu/sage ... which raises the question whether there's also a publicly

[sage-devel] Re: Commit 02ba7045cf38725ca8cb5456df649b6bacdcbd8e deleted

2015-05-11 Thread kcrisman
You also told us that git commits and trac tickets are orthogonal, and there is no such thing as a ticket to which this commit belongs. Still off topic, but that is just how things are. I would gently argue that this is an interpretation of how our workflow works, and that a new

[sage-devel] Re: Slightly OT but still relevant

2015-05-11 Thread kcrisman
So the article isn't so much about the use of computers in mathematics as it is about this very specific issue. Yes, I wasn't intending to say anything else, only that the article at one point goes on to mention other things people do with computers in math and doesn't mention discovery.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: max(sin(x),cos(x)) = sin(x)

2015-05-09 Thread kcrisman
1. create a dedicated symbolic_max or max_symbolic function sage: max_symbolic(sin(x),cos(x)) max(sin(x), cos(x)) Just confirming that this conversation has been had before - can you think of places where we might advertise this more boldly? We certainly had places we updated doc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Use mirrors

2015-05-09 Thread kcrisman
I'm surprised that there wouldn't be any US institution willing to host a mirror. -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: pushing to tickets after setting it to positive_review is incompatible with the current workflow

2015-05-09 Thread kcrisman
If you look at our trac then is pretty obvious that premature setting to positive review is about the only problem that we do NOT have. LOL, stimmt haargenau. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Slightly OT but still relevant

2015-05-08 Thread kcrisman
What I find interesting about this article is the almost complete lack of discussing the computer as something to help *discover* theorems then verified by hand, ala The Computer as Crucible. Appearances by JH Conway, Voevodsky, Frenkel, et al.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: pushing to tickets after setting it to positive_review is incompatible with the current workflow

2015-05-08 Thread kcrisman
In my experience, people don't set a ticket to needs_work because of something trivial at that time. Less read the code anyway, once it is already in positive_review ;-) Or else they add a commit immediately. Or at least are pretty specific about what the issue is. (Sometimes

Re: [sage-devel] Re: pushing to tickets after setting it to positive_review is incompatible with the current workflow

2015-05-08 Thread kcrisman
If all tests pass then any further change is either trivial (pretty much by definition), or there is something so seriously foobared that the entire ticket needs to be rethought (e.g. no testing). grumpyThat's complete garbage and you know it. There are all sorts of things that a

Re: [sage-devel] removing the dev scripts

2015-05-07 Thread kcrisman
Hello, dev script are a mess (see #18356). Could I remove everthing in sage/dev/ that is related to communication with the git server or the trac server? Were they already deprecated, though? In that event there should be a well-defined time at which they could be removed. --

Re: [sage-cloud] Re: [sage-devel] Typeset output in non-Sage modes in Sage Notebook

2015-04-30 Thread kcrisman
Yes, I guess we do so at our own risk. :) My intention was not to flame but rather just expressing my reaction after reading http://sagemath.org/doc/developer/git_trac.html#chapter-git-trac and considering the possible fate of my 3 line patch if I don't find the time to do things this

[sage-devel] Re: Poll: Which objects should be plotted by default in the notebook?

2015-04-29 Thread kcrisman
In #18289 [2], Volker is improving the Notebook interface by making some objects be automatically plotted by __repr__ [1] graphs.PetersenGraph() # this graph is plotted or P = posets.ChainPoset(10) # no plot P # here, P is plotted I'm actually more

[sage-devel] Re: GSoC 2015: 5 projects funded

2015-04-28 Thread kcrisman
Thanks, Harald, for the work making this possible. +1! -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: failure in thematic_tutorials/linear_programming.rst with coin-or

2015-04-28 Thread kcrisman
e.g. if your default solver is CPLEX then you'd doctest with --optional=sage,cplex and (ideally) should get no errors, etc. It introduces complications since nobody (?) uses sage -tp --all --optional=xyz I am using this (ok, call me nobody :-)) I'm starting to use

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sagenb shut down

2015-04-26 Thread kcrisman
Concerning public worksheets: I thought William also made a public sagemathcloud project that had all the public worksheets from sagenb in it? I haven't had time yet until the end of semester but I think this was an ongoing project. -- You received this message because you are

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

2015-04-23 Thread kcrisman
we offer two machines located in our data center (Opteron 270 with 16GB RAM and .5TB HDD each) to host the Sage cell server. Bye from Frankfurt/Germany, Sven Danke! William, Andrey - habt ihr das gesehen? I mean, did you see this offer? -- You received this message because you are

[sage-devel] Re: pushing to tickets after setting it to positive_review is incompatible with the current workflow

2015-04-20 Thread kcrisman
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 12:32:20 PM UTC-4, leif wrote: On 04/19/2015 05:41 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: I often have a look at positively reviewed tickets and sometimes ask questions about the review. Positive review just mean that one person agreed that the changes were good to be

Re: [sage-devel] installation of optional spkg's on binary Sage releases

2015-04-18 Thread kcrisman
That in this case is a Python script that tries to install everything to make the heavily enhanced version of Sage that people get when they BTW, a bit OT but any enhancements there that could be reported downstream to Sage proper? (I mean without someone doing a lot of digging for

[sage-devel] Re: Broken options of show() in Sage 6.6

2015-04-17 Thread kcrisman
For Sage 6.5, it was OK. For Sage 6.6.beta5, the problem was already there (but I've noticed it only today, sorry...). Can I just say I'm getting tired of people changing things in visual representation (e.g. show) and then not verifying it still does the same thing VISUALLY? We have

Re: [sage-devel] installation of optional spkg's on binary Sage releases

2015-04-17 Thread kcrisman
Side question -- Is anything guaranteed to build all optional packages? What's the current status of testing them? I keep raising this issue... If you ever get tired of raising the issue, maybe you could try doing something about it. Until we have the infrastructure of R I don't

Re: [sage-devel] installation of optional spkg's on binary Sage releases

2015-04-17 Thread kcrisman
If you ever get tired of raising the issue, maybe you could try doing something about it. defensive I think in this case the defensive is understandable. I have done things about the issues with optional packages. For example, I wrote

[sage-devel] Re: Broken options of show() in Sage 6.6

2015-04-17 Thread kcrisman
We have lots of doctests but they aren't worth anything on plots unless we actually try things out that way. I know its a bit of a problem because bitmaps are often not identical (different fonts etc) but that is a well-understood issue with standard solutions. It would be awesome

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Race condition when closing tickets

2015-04-16 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 7:58:32 AM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2015-04-16 01:33, Nils Bruin wrote: The whole meaning of positive review goes out of the window if one still changes the branch on the ticket. I disagree. It can easily happen that a problem is found after a

[sage-devel] Re: Race condition when closing tickets

2015-04-15 Thread kcrisman
The obvious answer: Don't change a ticket once it is positive review. Treat it like closed -- if you find a bug open a new ticket. Hmm, but somehow I feel that socially that will not always work, unless such things automatically became blockers. Positive review can often be wrong - and

[sage-devel] Re: Race condition when closing tickets

2015-04-15 Thread kcrisman
But you can't turn around and add another feature on a ticket that already has positive review. Not another feature, sure. But fixing an error, even a typo (especially if it's a misleading typo like forgetting the word not) sounds like adequate grounds to revert a positive review.

[sage-devel] Re: Bug triaging

2015-04-14 Thread kcrisman
needs review, though; most of those probably would need some serious work for that status, so one can definitely put to needs work or info. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[sage-devel] Re: Deprecate or just remove

2015-04-14 Thread kcrisman
the discussion (though of course they may be on vacation, or away from Sage for a time, or whatever). - kcrisman -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Bug triaging

2015-04-14 Thread kcrisman
the outdated ones open also makes old problems that really need work harder to find. True! Wish I had more time for this triage now - this summer I will, and I did quite a bit in October. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To

[sage-devel] Shout-out to various Sage-related products in AMS blog

2015-04-14 Thread kcrisman
http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2015/04/13/online-toolbox-for-number-theorists/#sthash.76Vaxs54.lPedVDky.dpbs Among others, the Jones and LMF dbs get a mention. And as if the database on its own wasn’t cool enough, you can actually load it into Sage and do number field computations to your

Re: [sage-devel] Re: pynac-0.3.3

2015-04-09 Thread kcrisman
The following changed behaviour leads to a few fails: sage: a,b = var('a b') sage: abs(sqrt(x)) sqrt(abs(x)) sage: sqrt(abs(x)^2) sqrt(x*conjugate(x)) sage: abs(x)^2 x*conjugate(x) What does Maxima do with these? I know that there has been endless discussion of what to do with

[sage-devel] Re: Exterior algebras.

2015-04-08 Thread kcrisman
Exterior algebras were included as part of http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15300 (which was merged into Sage 6.4). sage: E.x,y = ExteriorAlgebra(QQ) sage: a = x * y + x - 3*y / 2; a x^y + x - 3/2*y sage: a.interior_product(x) y + 1 sage: a.interior_product(y) -x - 3/2 Great. Any

[sage-devel] Re: pynac-0.3.3

2015-04-08 Thread kcrisman
since there seems no permanent maintainer of Pynac I propose to do the next release of Pynac. I have already transferred the source/history as planned to github at: https://github.com/rwst/pynac Ralf, this sounds like a fine idea. Burcin, I'm sure you have no objections? One thing I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Mathematica Goodies: print a list with colored entries

2015-04-07 Thread kcrisman
I did not know about this function (thanks!) though I had something different in mind, i.e.:emphasize *some* elements of a list. What Volker would define as: table(range(100), highlight=is_prime) Right, I see what you mean now. In principle the LaTeX and other outputs of table

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Exterior algebras.

2015-04-07 Thread kcrisman
Sorry for dredging this up from the depths... So I see that http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14418 has a more explicit interface. What gets me wondering about the current state in Sage is an article in the most recent Notices which contains a reference to

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica Goodies: print a list with colored entries

2015-04-06 Thread kcrisman
He showed us that one can consider the square root of a picture of a siamese cat, but also a nice feature: one can very easily display a list of objects, some of which are decorated with a frame or a background color. This is very useful, I believe, when one looks at a Are you

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: Whats wrong with my function syntax?

2015-04-02 Thread kcrisman
A large amount of common help/support questions could have the answers automated and built in. This would be 100% optional, triggered only on interactive errors, and not change Sage's library in any way (except possibly with the addition of this). This is all an intriguing idea, and

Re: [sage-devel] proprecation ? sandbox ?

2015-04-02 Thread kcrisman
languishes due pretty much only due to lack of some outside reviewer, but for which one would need to know a fair amount about knot theory to review properly.) - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Re: For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread kcrisman
But it suggest that Julia would have been a better language. And that Sage as it is written by mathematicians looks very amateuristic to a computer scientist. http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/les-informaticiens-meprisent.html?view=classic Those are both as may be true,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage logo -- Proposal

2015-03-30 Thread kcrisman
I am pretty sure the current Sage logo is not an icosahedron - Harald can explain the exact provenance, I am sure. Count the edges and vertices etc. There are faces with four sides, for instance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group.

Re: [sage-notebook] Re: [sage-devel] Sage Notebook shutdown

2015-03-30 Thread kcrisman
2. The following comment isn't necessarily very important in the context of our discussion about sagenb, but it's worth making. I think (based on data not just making things up) that most users of SMC are unlikely to ever consider using Sage outside SMC. This is because the majority

[sage-devel] Open Data Science Con

2015-03-30 Thread kcrisman
I don't know that I can justify going to this but it is tempting... several big Python things including the pandas author and author of Think Python. If there are a couple other Boston-area people who might be interested maybe we could go together. They *are* accepting non-technical but

Re: [sage-devel] Re: jmol/java on OS X 10.10.2

2015-03-27 Thread kcrisman
In my experience, at this point Java-based Jmol on OS X is a lost cause. It *was* working in OS X 10.something for me a few months ago embedded in sagenb.org, but now it doesn't. In fact, even the java applets at the Jmol website don't work for me in any browser, even with Java

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Notebook shutdown

2015-03-26 Thread kcrisman
Is there any use case for sagenb.org, or a potential replacement, that isn't covered by SageMathCloud? A public notebook server gives people an opportunity to try out sage with exactly the interface they would be able to have with a local install. The interface provided by

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Notebook shutdown

2015-03-26 Thread kcrisman
We've posted the following message on the http://sagenb.org site: This Sage notebook server will be shut down April 17, 2015. I am very worried about the extremely short notice. Many users will be disappointed to lose their work. Why not just keep it running without supporting

Re: [sage-notebook] Re: [sage-devel] Sage Notebook shutdown

2015-03-26 Thread kcrisman
Related: http://ask.sagemath.org/question/26352/uploading-a-zip-file-to-sagemathcloud/ -- 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] Re: jmol/java on OS X 10.10.2

2015-03-26 Thread kcrisman
RuntimeError: jmol cannot run, no suitable java version found I'm currently running Sage 6.6rc0 and I have double checked that I have Java installed. Any ideas for how to get Sage to recognize my Java? Thanks in advance for the help! A workaround might be to do it in the notebook.

[sage-devel] Re: jmol/java on OS X 10.10.2

2015-03-26 Thread kcrisman
Along these lines, I wish it were possible for Sage to generate a mini-webpage if one asked for it, whose only function is to show a jsmol. http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17894 suggests that it's possible in principle, though starting a web server to view 3d graphics seems overkill. But js

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in abs(I*x).diff(x)

2015-03-24 Thread kcrisman
A related question just popped up on ask.sagemath: http://ask.sagemath.org/question/26279/complex-analysis-compute-bar-derivative Not exactly the same but I think it gets at the same underlying issues of is it a complex variable or isn't it. -- You received this message because you are

[sage-devel] Re: OSX 10.6.8 needed to test #17907

2015-03-23 Thread kcrisman
Ticket #17386 implemented a naive rational point search algorithm for subschemes using the enumeration of points of bounded height in number fields from #15389. However, #15389 is precision sensitive and one of the examples in #17386 failed on OSX 10.6.8 (in addition to an error in height

[sage-devel] Re: osx 10.10.2 / sage 6.5 - how to read jpg/tiff files? - sage -i libjpeg-6b problem

2015-03-23 Thread kcrisman
it just tells us that you are running a binary distribution of Sage built by Karl. Which is odd, because I only make the 10.7 binary, which you shouldn't need to run. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: Interfacing Sage with a Java library (or thing)

2015-03-19 Thread kcrisman
be using the GUI. - kcrisman -- 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 group, send email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: Solved

2015-03-19 Thread kcrisman
Problem solved. On Yosemite 10.10.2, I have mac ports installed. The suggestions about alternative toolchains proved correct. I thought our script explicitly disallows macports and fink? (In particular, I just had a student compile Sage and he needed to move those directories as usual.)

[sage-devel] Re: Interfacing Sage with a Java library (or thing)

2015-03-18 Thread kcrisman
Or do you have one particular java program that you want to call from Python? This can be made 100% solid. Just write C/C++ JNI bindings for the Java function that you want to call. Then access those bindings through Cython. And launch the JVM from the Cython code. I believe this is

[sage-devel] Interfacing Sage with a Java library (or thing)

2015-03-17 Thread kcrisman
Short version: is there a way to get Sage to interface with a *Java* program not via pexpect, but a library interface? (Perhaps Jython?) See http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17902 for some background, in particular http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17902#comment:7 I have been reading over

[sage-devel] Re: White-haired needs_review tickets

2015-03-14 Thread kcrisman
What should be really done with long-waiting needs_review tickets ? See them as a database of ideas, similar to 5-year old requests for enhancement. +1 Honestly, those are not the problem, but rather the failure to push necessary but painful changes like the declare_var/function

[sage-devel] Python as beginner language - Comm. ACM

2015-03-13 Thread kcrisman
See this article - I know some will be interested. If you are not a member of ACM (I am not), I think many institutions will have this in their database. *Communications of the ACM. *Mar2015, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p19-21. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [sage-devel] White-haired needs_review tickets

2015-03-11 Thread kcrisman
1. Setup/write an editorial notification system to encourage the reviewing of tickets, similar to how every journal on the planet has an automated system for ensuring papers get reviewed, seeing the status of outstanding papers, etc. Maybe we could even just use an existing

[sage-devel] The End of Error

2015-03-06 Thread kcrisman
Seems quite relevant, but not sure if it's a bit hyped? http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482239867 -- 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] Re: Mac Yosemite build error conway_polynomials-0.4.p0

2015-03-02 Thread kcrisman
Since the OP is new to the group, probably doesn't have a Trac account (yet), so I've opened http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17884 On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 8:54:13 AM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote: Looks like a missing dependency. Can you open a ticket? Workaround: sage -f libgd make#

[sage-devel] Re: Sage code for educational purposes only?

2015-02-26 Thread kcrisman
In general, I think it is FAR more useful to spend our time on making the documentation for any educational/toy functions very clear than to creating some huge change of a new directory that no one will know about, deprecation, broken links, ... Unless people feel that Sage is *only* a

Re: [sage-devel] Sage code for educational purposes only?

2015-02-25 Thread kcrisman
- and there are a number of those - then that seems fine to me. - kcrisman -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: documentation coverage report

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
401 files with wrong documentation I couldn't get a good sense of what wrong meant from that patch. What does that specifically refer to? Thanks, - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Re: missing changelog

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
There is currently a 404 for http://sagemath.org/mirror/src/changelogs/sage-6.5.txt which is linked from http://sagemath.org/ Yes, there is always a slight delay in creating this because the creation is no longer an automated part of the process. The finalized version should be up

[sage-devel] Re: documentation coverage report

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
There is even a tag (I forget the exact wording) for saying that this is an indirect doctest, which hopefully this script picks out. On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 1:22:51 PM UTC-5, Nils Bruin wrote: On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 10:07:13 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: I couldn't get a good

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Days during Mar 21-29, 2015?

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
I have teaching duties that week, so, unfortunately, i can't go. Same here. When is your Spring Break? Just a couple weeks from now, and already spoken for :) sorry :( because I would be interested in a dedicated Sage time right now, which I don't have now. -- You

[sage-devel] Re: remove optional packages: extra_docs-20070208, java3d-20070901, knoboo-20080411

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
In fact, I would be OK with removing all of the following as official optional Sage packages that appear when doing sage -optional on a fresh sage-6.5 install: beautifulsoup-3.2.1 . not installed # in pypi Then we would need to update some documentation and

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days during Mar 21-29, 2015?

2015-02-23 Thread kcrisman
I have teaching duties that week, so, unfortunately, i can't go. Same here. -- 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] Re: how to unsubscribe from Trac ticket updates

2015-02-21 Thread kcrisman
Hi, I have been getting email updates for a ticket that I commented on a long time ago and I was wondering if I can unsubscribe from the updates. I know at least one way: review the ticket! The author is usually responsive and quick with fixes. :) But more seriously, I don't know

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [debian] Strange numerical errors in sage's libpari code

2015-02-20 Thread kcrisman
I no longer use sage for my day-to-day work, but when I was and I had to e.g. give a presentation, it was infuriating to find sage broken AGAIN ??? I assume this is because you updated some dependency and Sage didn't work quite properly somewhere in its bowels with that? I've never once

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