Re: [sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
2009/11/30 William Stein wst...@gmail.com: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM, dimpase dimp...@gmail.com wrote: Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP in place of the supplied one. Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old and (a bit) broken version of

Re: [sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
William, I'm curious -- what in particular is broken about GAP-4.4.10?  We tried to ship 4.4.12, but found it to be more broken; in particular, it didn't work on Itanium Linux boxes, which is one of our officially supported platforms. I tried to reproduce your problem on an Itanium cluster at

[sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-29 Thread dimpase
Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP in place of the supplied one. Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old and (a bit) broken version of GAP, (well, I know that I can install a newer version by downloading the corresponding update) having two copies of

[sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-29 Thread tmbdev
If you could use the system Python, that would fix that problem too, wouldn't it? Tom On Nov 29, 6:38 pm, dimpase dimp...@gmail.com wrote: Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP in place of the supplied one. Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old

Re: [sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM, dimpase dimp...@gmail.com wrote: Another similar question involves using the local version of GAP in place of the supplied one. Apart from the fact that Sage is distributed with an old and (a bit) broken version of GAP, (well, I know that I can install a newer

Re: [sage-support] Re: using the system version of Python from the sage notebook?

2009-11-29 Thread Dima Pasechnik
William, Patch 11 of GAP 4.4 fixes a dozen of critical level bugs, ie bugs that potentially lead to wrong results! Eg getting wrong character tables, wrong results in range intersection... If a platform, like Itanium, was dropped, it is likely for a jolly good reason. IMHO distributing a clearly