2009/12/18 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, YannLC <yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear sage-devel, >> >> I made a small spkg in ticket #7239 which just received a positive >> review. >> Some apllications in #7240 are following the same way. >> >> The package contains the list of prime factors occuring in >> numbers of the form p^k-1 with p<13 and small k which can be useful >> e.g. for finite field stuff. >> >> If this second patch is accepted, it will add a warning the first time >> the user tries to test the primitivity of a polynomial over a field of >> small characteristic (2,3,5,7 or 11) but big cardinality ( > 2**100 ). >> The warning is an advertisement for the optional spkg in #7239. >> >> My first question is: in general, do you find it reasonable to make >> such an advertisement? > > Yes, but do it using the verbose command, so that a user can do > "set_verbose(-1)" if they don't want to see your ad. > >> Secondly, citing the reviewer: >> " >> cremona: >> But why don't we (you!) put a case to sage-devel for including this >> spkg as standard? It's only another 492837 bytes, and the cremona >> database is 78M. > > The cremona database is 78MB, but it is *not* standard. So that's no > argument.
Sorry, I realised that too late. > That said, it is probably reasonable to make your package standard. Yes, surely. That's why I suggested bringing the discussion here for a vote. YannLC needs to make his case! John > However, there > is a waiting period for that, and a vote. > > William > >> " >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> 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.sagemath.org >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > 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.sagemath.org > -- 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.sagemath.org
