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

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 10, 2007 4:07 PM, Yi Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that unless you are really serious about blogging, using hosted blogging is even easier. Try blogspot (http://www.blogspot.com). Agreed. It's owned by google, so from a gmail account you can just click more in the upper

[sage-devel] Re: more SAGE publicity [new wiki items]

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 7, 2007 4:50 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 4:02 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 12:58 PM, John Cremona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/12/2007, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 11:29 AM, Iftikhar

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

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 10, 2007 4:58 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2007 1:39 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The plots look really nice. Thanks for posting this. Since pyglet depends on it, I'm curious what people think of opengl. Try this in Sage right now. It might

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Parallelism in Sage [and MAGNUS]

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
I have written a few people (including Gilbert) about the possibility of interfacing with MAGNUS. The problem appears to be that MAGNUS is a gui interface and a command-line back-end, but the gui is not as modular as one would like. I hope I'm wrong and would be very happy to be corrected, but it

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support mathematicians in poorer countries and someone mails out a CD or DVD. In this

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 9, 2007 8:37 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 5:32 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think

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

2007-12-07 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 7, 2007 9:50 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 1:32 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am certainly happy to share credit with anyone on any file I work on. IMHO, anyone who does anything non-trivial has the write to put their name on a xyz.py

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

2007-12-07 Thread David Joyner
I am certainly happy to share credit with anyone on any file I work on. IMHO, anyone who does anything non-trivial has the write to put their name on a xyz.py file, at least if they are happy to cede their copyright to William Stein. In fact, for licensing issues, I would think it is useful to

[sage-devel] Re: more SAGE publicity :-)

2007-12-07 Thread David Joyner
-- to which I think there will shortly be a new addition by David Harvey. [And while looking for taht page using the Sage search engine I discovered a paper by David Joyner which refers to a paper of my student Steve Wesemeyer -- small world!] That's here: http://sagemath.org/pub.html

[sage-devel] Re: Java3D usable in any form?

2007-12-03 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 3, 2007 7:21 PM, Nils Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Concerning interactive 3d vis tools: Is there currently *any* way of getting Java3D to work reliably together with sage on, say Mac G5 systems running OSX and on i386/ amd64 with linux? It doesn't necessarily have to be from the

[sage-devel] Re: Breaking News: Trophees du Libre

2007-11-29 Thread David Joyner
Wow - think is fantastic! Thanks very much for preparing slides and presenting SAGE so well. William: Can we add something to the SAGE website about this? There is this quote from Stallman on their webpage: With 113 participants from 18 countries, 'Trophées du Libre' is unquestionably the

[sage-devel] Re: Talk about SAGE at Les Trophees du Libre 2007 competition

2007-11-25 Thread David Joyner
I think this looks really excellent! Possibly there is a typo on page 27. Did you mean installation guide where you said programming guide? On Nov 25, 2007 10:14 AM, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Sage is among the finalists of this year's Les Trophees du Libre

[sage-devel] Re: Talk about SAGE at Les Trophees du Libre 2007 competition

2007-11-25 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 25, 2007 10:59 AM, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2007, David Joyner wrote: I think this looks really excellent! Possibly there is a typo on page 27. Did you mean installation guide where you said programming guide? I meant: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE for French Educational system

2007-11-24 Thread David Joyner
from the email lists at http://www.sagemath.org/lists.html I'm cross-posting to sage-forum since there may be people there interested in your project not on sage-devel. - David Joyner On Nov 24, 2007 5:20 PM, Philippe Saadé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

[sage-devel] patch for tut,tex

2007-11-23 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I created a patch fixing someoutdated parts of the tutorial. http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1251 - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: abelian groups

2007-11-22 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 22, 2007 9:35 AM, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to discuss this abelian group thing a bit further, from the point of view of design issues rather than algorithms. Currently in SAGE the situation appears to be the following. An AbelianGroup represents a (not

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.13 release cycle: request for reviews [abelian groups]

2007-11-19 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 19, 2007 6:33 AM, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: I still don't believe this algorithm. Look at this example: sage: K.a = GF(3^4) sage: K.polynomial() a^4 + 2*a^3 + 2 sage: E = EllipticCurve(K, [2*a^2 + 2*a + 2,

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.13 release cycle: request for reviews [abelian groups]

2007-11-19 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 19, 2007 7:27 AM, David Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 6:59 AM, David Joyner wrote: Further down the road, Drew Sutherland is thinking about writing a C+ + library for computing things like orders, exponents, structures of generic abelian groups. Basically

[sage-devel] Fwd: [Maxima] Interesting Comment re Mathematica vs Everybody Else

2007-11-19 Thread David Joyner
FYI (scroll down to see the mention of SAGE) -- Forwarded message -- From: Miguel Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 19, 2007 7:13 AM Subject: Re: [Maxima] Interesting Comment re Mathematica vs Everybody Else To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have not played with Maple or MuPAD for

[sage-devel] Re: Projects

2007-11-19 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 19, 2007 12:21 PM, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, at Sage Days 6 Stefan Müller-Stach http://hodge.mathematik.uni-mainz.de/~stefan/index.html babelfish translation:

[sage-devel] Re: trying to define a function and find an approximation

2007-11-15 Thread David Joyner
On Nov 15, 2007 2:49 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 15, 2007 1:45 AM, Dan Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered Sage recently and am very excited about it. In grad school, I came to be very good with Mathematica, and am now doing a postdoc where I only have

[sage-devel] Re: [SAGEdev] Error building sage in Solaris 10 with gcc 4.0.2

2007-11-14 Thread David Joyner
Klas: Thanks for your report but it was sent to the wrong list. (The sf list is closed. I'm forwarding this to the correct list.) - David Joyner On Nov 14, 2007 8:19 AM, Klas Heggemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fails in the building of one of the libraries: SunOS sgray.nada.kth.se 5.10

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-13 Thread David Joyner
. If it is opensource then perhaps it could be adapted to be used as a windows SAGE gui interface? Fabio On Nov 13, 2007 3:53 AM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:50 AM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried emailing the author of mathguide several

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-13 Thread David Joyner
12:41 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/13/07, Fabio Tonti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original Webpage says [mathGUIde] ist Freeware und wird mit allen Quellen verbreitet which means that it's freeware and is distributed with all the sources. So it doesn't state

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-12 Thread David Joyner
I tried emailing the author of mathguide several times a few years ago, with no response. Of course, my email was in English, which might have been the problem. In any case, I did not get the impression that it was open source. Either I am wrong or I presume this guy got permission from the

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Clisp and graphics

2007-11-10 Thread David Joyner
Hi Bill: Does it make sense to build an axiom4sage package which uses the pre-installed clisp (since maxima comes with clisp) to make the axiom graphics engine? If so, do you know how long such a package would take to compile, on average? - David On 11/10/07, Waldek Hebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[sage-devel] new optional gap_packages*

2007-11-04 Thread David Joyner
Hi: A new gap_packages* has been created. Details are at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1101 - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: Mike Hansens talk *today* introducing Sae and symmetric functions, etc.

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
Many thanks William and Mike for recording and uploading these! On 11/1/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the video from Mike Hansen's talk *today* introducing Sage and symmetric functions, etc., during the Univ of Washington combinatorics seminar:

[sage-devel] Re: 2.8.11.alpha0 released

2007-11-01 Thread David Joyner
On 11/1/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have released 2.8.11.alpha0 at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/sage-2.8.11.alpha0.tar It passes testall on sage.math, but I would like to get some build feedback on OSX 10.4, both PPC and Intel flavors, as well as 32 bit Linux.

[sage-devel] Re: numerically solve an equation

2007-10-28 Thread David Joyner
On 10/26/07, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to numerically solve a system of equations. Currently I have: sage: var('x y p q') sage: eq1 = p+q==9 sage: eq2 = q*y+p*x==-6 sage: eq3 = q*y^2+p*x^2==24 sage: solve([eq1,eq2,eq3,p==1],p,q,x,y) [[p == 3, q == 6, x ==

[sage-devel] Re: implemented here

2007-10-28 Thread David Joyner
On 10/28/07, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I am working on a talk on SAGE for the RHUL PhD seminar and thus I wondered what functionality SAGE implements that was not implemented before in the open-source world. By 'implement' I do not mean wrapping some library or

[sage-devel] Re: sloccount of sage-2.8.9.rc1

2007-10-25 Thread David Joyner
On 10/25/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/07, Bill Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some real surprises on that list. MPFR has many more lines of code than I thought, Pari many fewer lines of code. It's amazing what it achieves with such a small code base. I

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in permgroup.py ?

2007-10-24 Thread David Joyner
Thank you for reporting this bug. This is now http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/981 I'll try to work on it later today. On 10/24/07, Biel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I think that there is a bug in the module permgroup.py, at line 1226, the method conjugacy_classes_subgroups calls

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in permgroup.py ?

2007-10-24 Thread David Joyner
I posted a link to a patch at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/981 On 10/24/07, Biel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I think that there is a bug in the module permgroup.py, at line 1226, the method conjugacy_classes_subgroups calls PermutationGroupElement; I think it should be

[sage-devel] Re: problem with showing plots from command line

2007-10-23 Thread David Joyner
On 10/23/07, Jonathan Bober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I tried to send the following email a few hours ago (but I put the email address in wrong) and I don't feel like rewriting it all. So I should add to it now that I have upgraded sage (so I am running 2.8.8.1) and the error

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-forum] sage-2.8.8

2007-10-22 Thread David Joyner
On 10/21/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I know what's going on. If you install the Gap optional packages, then reset the workspace you get the behavior I see. If you don't install the optional packages you don't. Thus one of the packages changes the print behavior of

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
This version does not upgrade or install on suse 9.1 amd64. I would not make it a priority since these machines are due to be upgraded, but thought I'd let you know. However, it does not install on suse 10.2 either! In case this helps: sage: An error occurred while installing flint-0.2.p4

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 4:26 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, This version does not upgrade or install on suse 9.1 amd64. As far as I can tell Suse 9.1 AMD64 ships with gcc 3.3, which is not C99 conform. So flint won't build, you

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 5:46 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 4:26 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Hi David, This version does not upgrade

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7

2007-10-16 Thread David Joyner
On 10/16/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 6:09 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, SNIP gcc blows up, there is little we can do about that. Please check if there are updates compilers available

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
On 10/15/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've posted rc2, which resolved a few remaining issues (a major bug in Cython and issues I had with two of the patches that fixed things): http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc2.tar Also, it would be great if somebody

[sage-devel] special function patch

2007-10-15 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I fixed some bugs in the special functions module. The patch is linked to in the trac ticket http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/906 and passes sage -t. (This patch was originally created in Oct 2006 but never applied.) - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: Small Groups Database

2007-10-14 Thread David Joyner
It is already (somewhat) wrapped and is included in gap_packages*.spkg. http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/module-sage.rings.real-field.html#l2h-3143 There is also a IsomorphismTypeInfoFiniteSimpleGroup http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP037.htm#SSEC015.11 and

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.7.alpha0

2007-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On 10/14/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have released sage-2.8.7.rc1 here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/ In particular, this link: http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.7.rc1.tar Hopefully this will work with no doctest failures on some

[sage-devel] Re: my plenary ams talk

2007-10-13 Thread David Joyner
On 10/13/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is a link to my slides and demo for my ams plenary talk: http://sagemath.org/why/alb/ Looks like it will be a great talk. Wish I could make it! -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington

[sage-devel] Re: Third party packages

2007-10-12 Thread David Joyner
Thanks for thinking about this. Other than licensing issues, which may or may not be relevant to your question, one possibility to help with upgrades is to create a new subdirectory (say examples/third-party, or something) which is not touched by the upgrade process, and then just reload

[sage-devel] Re: Introductory SAGE talk in Oslo

2007-10-11 Thread David Joyner
Excellent! Thanks. However, the pdf at http://folk.uio.no/georgmu/Writings/SAGE-Oslo/ has some black pages. Do you know why this is? +++ On 10/11/07, Georg Muntingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tied up the loose ends, and now you can find the PDF, ODP and

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-05 Thread David Joyner
(1) One very easy project which would be of significant benefit is the following: In maxima, you can save a gnuplot to a file using a command line option. This (and some extra programming which William says is easy) enables one to view 3d graphics in the notebook. However, there is one big

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
Agreed. Even linking the Spanish version is a good idea I think. On 9/28/07, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William wrote; Here's a Google Translated version to English, which is enough to understand most of the article: This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica and Free Software in Mexico

2007-09-28 Thread David Joyner
On 9/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a very good article. Since he seems to be a fan of SAGE, I wonder if he would be willing to provide an English version of this paper so that it could be placed on the SAGE website? Actually, when I asked him for permission

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-24 Thread David Joyner
On 9/24/07, Jaap Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Martin wrote: My vote would be to change the sage license to GPLv2 or later and try to get the Singular developers to do likewise. Mainly because that is less work. Does changing Sage to v2 or later require Sage to adopted future

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Jason Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts: 1. I've been doing some performance comparisons on GMP 4.2.2 with the patches that Sage uses, and I haven't seen any remarkable differences between 4.2.2 and 4.2.1.

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Jason Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts: 1. I've been doing some performance comparisons on GMP 4.2.2 with the patches that Sage uses, and I haven't seen any remarkable differences between 4.2.2 and 4.2.1.

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
On 9/23/07, Joel B. Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:46, William Stein wrote: However, in the COPYING file for Sage itself, I wrote: All original SAGE code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License *Version 2*. Just out of

[sage-devel] Re: gmp 4.2.2 LGPL V3 issues and other minor tidbits

2007-09-23 Thread David Joyner
submitted any code to Sage where they explicitly put Version 2 in their copyright statement. I'm asking this mainly to see what our options are. I join David Joyner: GPLv2 or later This will resolve all issues for library usage. Jaap

[sage-devel] Re: استمع للقران الكريم و انت تتصفح ..

2007-09-22 Thread David Joyner
I don't know how this post made it through the moderated new members filter. He joined on the 20th. Banned, reported, and deleted. On 9/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: السلام عليكم اخواني واخواني هذه ملف مرفق لتشغيل القران الكريم عبر موقع على الانترنت ومباشر دون الدخول

[sage-devel] Re: quantifier elimination

2007-09-22 Thread David Joyner
If there is any interest, I can ask Chris Brown, who I know fairly well. I think I asked him about licenses once. I vaguely remember him saying all his stuff is GPL-compatible (or even public domain) but saclib is separate. On 9/22/07, Jason

[sage-devel] Re: documentation changes

2007-09-21 Thread David Joyner
On 9/21/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed some of the documentation in graphs/graph.py (formatted it using Latex). How do I build a new manual to see my changes? cd SAGE_ROOT/devel/doc/ref ./build_pdf That will create

[sage-devel] Re: numerical optimization in sage

2007-09-19 Thread David Joyner
I have no ideas, but would like to mention the OS constraint solver eclipse http://eclipse.crosscoreop.com/ probably belongs to the same family of programs. This was mentioned at the GAP conference but I've forgotten why now. (Maybe Marc Roeder used it?) On 9/19/07, William Stein [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus

2007-09-18 Thread David Joyner
On 9/17/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/07, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds from what you write though, that it is best to just stick with the upload / download terminology, since it is *very* clear in which direction the file goes in each case.

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus

2007-09-17 Thread David Joyner
On 9/17/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/07, Peter G. Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently discovered SAGE, which I think is really quite amazing. I am contemplating introducing the students in our honors calculus course here at Dartmouth to SAGE. I'm a bit

[sage-devel] slides for SAGE talk

2007-09-04 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I'm giving an Intro to SAGE next week in Germany at the GAP conference. The slides are posted at http://www.opensourcemath.org/wdj/writing/gap2007/sage-9-2007.pdf and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or comments. - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: contribution instructions

2007-08-30 Thread David Joyner
GPL version 2 or later (at your option) provides more flexibility than GPL 2, which is what it is now. I'll try to remember create a patch for that (or you can if you wish). Thanks for pointing that out. On 8/30/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The contribution instructions here

[sage-devel] Re: sage custom search engine

2007-08-30 Thread David Joyner
Wow. I just tested this out. It is amazing. Thanks! On 8/30/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 9, 2:54 am, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I officially donate the contents ofhttp://test.chris.chiasson.name/sage/ to the SAGEproject. :-)

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.3.rc2.tar

2007-08-30 Thread David Joyner
for internet explorer * Robert Bradshaw: Added first version of new java/notebook based 3d plotting capabilities. * Robert Bradshaw: Improvements to coercion code * Robert Bradshaw and David Joyner: New Rubik's cube solver code interface code. * Paule Dehaye: Interface

[sage-devel] Re: build error

2007-08-30 Thread David Joyner
There is now a rc3 at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/dist/s/dist/ Can you try it too and let us know if it has the same problem? ++ On 8/30/07, Lukas Diduch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - build failed for libiml @ linking stage replacing

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.3

2007-08-29 Thread David Joyner
Another gap problem: the patch http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/patches/gap-4.4.9.p1.spkg has the latest version of guava (guava 3.0, incorporating work of Robert Miller and Tom Boothby). It has not been applied. I'll see if a trac ticket can be created for this. On 8/29/07, William

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.3

2007-08-29 Thread David Joyner
This is on a suse 10.2 amd64. Build works fine and command line seems to work okay but the notebook crashes: sage: notebook() Please choose a new password for the SAGE Notebook 'admin' user. Do _not_ choose a stupid password, since anybody who could guess your password and connect to your

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-28 Thread David Joyner
/ problems /... --Mike On 8/24/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 11:15 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 7:18 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, On 8/24

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-28 Thread David Joyner
/ . Then, the following line should be added to sage/interfaces/all.py : from lie import lie, lie_console, LiE There is a bit of documentation in lie.py. Let me know how it goes, Mike On 8/28/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problems with installing package and patch

[sage-devel] Re: Can you build FLINT?

2007-08-28 Thread David Joyner
On an intel macbook, install went fine but ZmodF_mul-test had a failure. On 8/28/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In preparation for including FLINT in SAGE, I've created an experimental FLINT sage package. Try building it: ./sage -f -m flint-0.1.spkg If this works,

[sage-devel] Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-24 Thread David Joyner
: LiE questions To: David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Joyner wrote: Hi Marc: I was just thinking about this package again recently for some reason. I wonder if you could please ask if it is possible for LiE to be GPL'd at some point in the future. If not, fine, but I'd like to know if you

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-24 Thread David Joyner
so this is definitely on my radar. Other packages of interest are Schur http://schur.sourceforge.net/ Atlas of Lie Groups Software http://www.liegroups.org/software/ --Mike On 8/24/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good news: LiE is now GPL'd. This does a number

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-24 Thread David Joyner
On 8/24/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 6:05 pm, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll go ahead and do some work on it this weekend. I've created a trac ticket:http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/489 --Mike SNIP Hello folks, and it already has been

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: LiE questions

2007-08-24 Thread David Joyner
On 8/24/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 7:18 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, On 8/24/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will add the needed bits to the trac ticket. Is there a test suite for Lie I could/should run? In .../LiE/progs

[sage-devel] Re: rubik's cube solvers

2007-08-24 Thread David Joyner
instead one day? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.2.rc2

2007-08-22 Thread David Joyner
same problem, suse 10.2, amd64. By reinstalling gnucryptolib-20070814.spkg do you mean sage -f gnucryptolib-20070814.spkg? +++ On 8/22/07, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The build went fine for me. All tests passed for me in 1927 seconds on

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8.2.rc2

2007-08-22 Thread David Joyner
Okay, now on an amd64 suse 10.2 machine everything works: install, make test, and the secure notebook. However, I had to install then run sage -f gnucryptolib-20070814.spkg to get the notebook to work. On 8/22/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 22, 12:16 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: sagelite

2007-08-21 Thread David Joyner
I like this idea too. On 8/21/07, Alfredo Portes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 for this idea. On 8/21/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I definitely think factoring out *just* the notebook would be a wonderful gift to the community. Alfredo

[sage-devel] rubik's cube solvers

2007-08-18 Thread David Joyner
but am emailing the list in case anyone is interested and has the time to create Python wrappers for one (or both) of them. SAGE currently has a Rubik's cube solver which uses GAP and is quite slow and far from optimal. Maybe one of these could be used instead one day? - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: slides for a SAGE talk

2007-08-17 Thread David Joyner
Nice job. You could list somewhere the areas where SAGE is better than anything else: (1) modular forms (functionality), (2) polynomial multiplication, (3) well-designed development environment, (4) SciPy for number crunching (some people on the SciPy list, for example, argue that SciPy is better

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: New Axiom package

2007-08-15 Thread David Joyner
Maybe this is more work than you want to get into but here's an idea: (1) try building SAGE using Clisp without readline support, check for warnings etc, (2) run sage -testall, check for broken tests. (3) report problems to the lists. Would that add useful information?

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] New Axiom package

2007-08-14 Thread David Joyner
installs fine on suse 10.2 amd64 machine running sage 2.8. On 8/14/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Recently Waldek created a (forked) version of Axiom called FriCAS, which means free CAS. He set things up so it builds and installs in the SAGE environment in about 10-15

[sage-devel] Re: Getting Geometry in SAGE

2007-08-14 Thread David Joyner
New members are moderated. I didn't post FlameGuy's email but didn't delete it either. (Both William and I are moderators. It was addressed to William and didn't think it appropriate for me to delete emails adressed to him, but I did tell him I would not post it for obvious reasons.) I do think

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE talk at CECM

2007-08-09 Thread David Joyner
On 8/9/07, Justin C. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 9, 2007, at 24:41 , William Stein wrote: My impression repeatedly, is that with SAGE it is best to focus as much as possible on young people and new users, and not worry much about old fogies. Older people have repeatedly

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in TeXmacs

2007-08-09 Thread David Joyner
I wasn't able to get this working but I am not much of a texmacs user. Anyway, could you perhaps email the texmacs guy and let him know abour it? Maybe he could add a SAGE link on his webpage and post your tarball. On 8/9/07, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was playing around

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE download stats -- how to increase SAGE usage?

2007-08-08 Thread David Joyner
On 8/8/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding Internet Explorer, the fact is it would be 1-2 day's of work to make the SAGE notebook reasonably usable from IE 7. Shift-enter would be replaced by a submit button and

[sage-devel] Re: new colloquium talk on SAGE

2007-08-08 Thread David Joyner
Excellent and very interesting. page 2: SD4 was held at UW not UCLA page 15: add VIGRE to PIMS for SD4 funding? page 16: Is it correct to say instead of there likely will never be a native windows version, to say there likely will never be a native windows version without significant addition

[sage-devel] AMS Notices column

2007-08-08 Thread David Joyner
Hi: The version at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/papers/oscas/oscas-ams-notices.pdf has been accepted by the editor for the November NOTICES Opinion column. Are there any further comments? We have a day or 2 before sending in the final version. - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: sage custom search engine

2007-08-06 Thread David Joyner
This is greta! Thanks. Yes, please announce to the forum. William: What do you think of it? Do you think a link to something like this should be on the SAGE webpage somewhere? ++ On 8/6/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[sage-devel] ams notices opinion column

2007-08-04 Thread David Joyner
Hi: William Stein and I have written a draft http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/research/oscas-ams-notices4.pdf which seems suitable (based on suggestions and criteria given to us by the editor Andy Magid). Thoughts anyone? - David Joyner

[sage-devel] Re: ams notices opinion column

2007-08-04 Thread David Joyner
word count of about 800 On 8/4/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what were the criteria? On Aug 4, 3:48 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: William Stein and I have written a drafthttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/research/oscas-ams-notices4.pdf which

[sage-devel] Re: ams notices opinion column

2007-08-04 Thread David Joyner
missed it, but the article doesn't seem to indicate that the authors of the article are also authors of sage (and would possibly benefit financially from ams support of sage) On Aug 4, 4:09 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: word count of about 800 On 8/4/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: ams notices opinion column

2007-08-04 Thread David Joyner
could be completely wrong. Similarly, if we're trying to sell them on using SAGE, just direct them to a public notebook server, with a few chunks of hand-picked examples already in worksheets; SAGE speaks for itself. -cc On Aug 4, 2007, at 1:48 PM, David Joyner wrote: Hi: William

[sage-devel] Re: posible licence issue raised by GPL-v3

2007-07-29 Thread David Joyner
On 7/29/07, Pablo De Napoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William (and others): There is a licence issue about Sage raised by GPL-v3, that may be you need to consider (I'm not a lawyer so that what I'm saying could be wrong). As far as I can tell, what you are saying is consistent with

[sage-devel] Re: posible licence issue raised by GPL-v3

2007-07-29 Thread David Joyner
On 7/29/07, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/29/07, Pablo De Napoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William (and others): There is a licence issue about Sage raised by GPL-v3, that may be you need to consider (I'm not a lawyer so that what I'm saying could be wrong). This comes

[sage-devel] Re: accessing GAP's small groups database from the notebook

2007-07-26 Thread David Joyner
None of these problems arise on an intel macbook running sage 2.7. I also tested it using gap_console() and the example worked in that mode too. Could you please try gap_reset_workspace() and then restart SAGE and see if the examples start? +++ On 7/26/07, Dan

[sage-devel] Re: GAP and rings?

2007-07-25 Thread David Joyner
You probably know this already but the 2003 survey www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Gerhard.Hiss/Preprints/AlgoRepTheo.pdf discusses briefly what is/was out there. I don't think it mentions recent packages such as laguna, crime, and hap, but I don't know of a more recent survey. On 7/25/07, Dan

[sage-devel] Re: build test help?

2007-07-23 Thread David Joyner
(1) Version 2.7.1 installed and compiled fine on a suse 10.2 amd64 machine. SAGE build/upgrade complete! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sagefiles/sage-2.7.1.alpha3 ./sage -- | SAGE Version 2.7.1.alpha3, Release Date: 2007-07-22

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Documentation brainstorming

2007-07-23 Thread David Joyner
Ted: Very very interesting. Thanks for the great comments and the offer to help. +++ On 7/23/07, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William wrote: I think SAGE might potentially greatly benefit from certain types of new documentation. snip I

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