[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Dec 24, 2008, at 20:36 , William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 PM, mabshoff > wrote: [snip] > I want the Sage "optional" packages to *all* install fine on every > system that we officially support Sage on. >>> No chance this is going to work. >>> >>> 1. Just becau

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Dec 24, 10:24 am, "William Stein" wrote: >> The *right* solution should be that as soon as I try to install the >> spkg, it fails with an error that says "install 32-bit userspace" and >> some hint as to what the heck that means. > > This is

[sage-devel] Re: Issue with coefficients for LaurentPolynomialRing

2008-12-24 Thread tom d
I see; thank you, and sorry to bother. Best, -tom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at ht

[sage-devel] Sage 3.2.3.alpha0 released

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, here goes 3.2.3.alpha0. It is already much larger than I thought it would be, but it contains one essential fix over 3.2.2: If you have an init.sage 3.2.2 will not start properly, but will make IPython crash at startup. Other than that there are various fixes and also some small new

[sage-devel] Re: Issue with coefficients for LaurentPolynomialRing

2008-12-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Dec 24, 2008, at 13:58 , mabshoff wrote: > > The following was reported by Tom Denton: > > Here's some code that doesn't seem to work. > > INPUT: > Q=LaurentPolynomialRing(QQ,'q') > R=PolynomialRing(Q,['u','v']) > q=Q.gens()[0] > u=R.gens()[0] > v=R.gens()[1] > x=q^3*u^2*v + q+1 > x.monomials

[sage-devel] Re: A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 1:18 pm, adam wrote: > Hi all, Hi Adam, > It is easy to create an AppleScript applet that will launch "sage". > Assuming the sage > folder is within the Mac OS X Applications folder, the script is > >      tell application "Terminal" >         do script "/Applications/sage/sage" >

[sage-devel] Issue with coefficients for LaurentPolynomialRing

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
The following was reported by Tom Denton: Here's some code that doesn't seem to work. INPUT: Q=LaurentPolynomialRing(QQ,'q') R=PolynomialRing(Q,['u','v']) q=Q.gens()[0] u=R.gens()[0] v=R.gens()[1] x=q^3*u^2*v + q+1 x.monomials() OUPUT: [u^2*v, 1] So the 'monomials' code seems to be dropping th

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 10:24 am, "William Stein" wrote: > >>    * gcc-4.2.1 -- this spkg exists only because Michael made it so I > >> could try to build sage on some weird systems where the system-wide > >> compilers were crap.  It doesn't build on sage.math now, and it's not > >> something almost anyb

[sage-devel] A Mac OS X Sage Launcher

2008-12-24 Thread adam
Hi all, It is easy to create an AppleScript applet that will launch "sage". Assuming the sage folder is within the Mac OS X Applications folder, the script is tell application "Terminal" do script "/Applications/sage/sage" end tell This script can be saved as a double-clickable

[sage-devel] Re: performace issue for generic polynomial rings

2008-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:02 AM, YannLC wrote: > > replacing multiplications by shift in quo_rem found > polynomial_element_generic.py gives great improvement on this tiny > example: > > sage: R.=PolynomialRing(GF(4,'a')) > sage: P=R.random_element(20) > sage: Q=R.random_element(256) > sage: time

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 AM, mabshoff wrote: > On Dec 23, 11:13 pm, "William Stein" wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:02 PM, William Stein wrote: >> > Hi, > > Hi, > >> > I propose moving the polymake spkg to be experimental instead of >> > optional. If anybody cares, please respond to t

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > >* dvipng-1.8 -- available on any linux/os x system via standard > package tools; has nothing to do with sage Delete it completely. The dependencies are insane and people just install the distributions version.

[sage-devel] Re: In-place creation of text cells and WYSIWYG editing using TinyMCE

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 6:56 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Hello everyone, > Install the following packages from the above tickets. You may have to > do ./sage -f to force an installation if you've already > installed the spkg. I have started to review all the spkgs Jason did and the fixed ones are at h

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 9:33 am, "Arnaud Bergeron" wrote: Hi Arnaud, > >>> >    * dvipng-1.8 -- available on any linux/os x system via standard > >>> > package tools; has nothing to do with sage > > >>> Delete it completely. The dependencies are insane and people just > >>> install the distributions versi

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
>>> >* dvipng-1.8 -- available on any linux/os x system via standard >>> > package tools; has nothing to do with sage >>> >>> Delete it completely. The dependencies are insane and people just >>> install the distributions version.. I think this spkg was made for macs, where the system dvipng

[sage-devel] Re: In-place creation of text cells and WYSIWYG editing using TinyMCE

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 8:11 am, mhampton wrote: > I really like this capability.  I have installed and tested it on an > intel mac using Firefox and Safari, seems to work fine.  I encourage > other people to give it a try.  I think this will be an important > selling point for people designing computer lab

[sage-devel] Re: performace issue for generic polynomial rings

2008-12-24 Thread YannLC
of course I made a mistake, the timing is better after... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group

[sage-devel] Re: In-place creation of text cells and WYSIWYG editing using TinyMCE

2008-12-24 Thread mhampton
I really like this capability. I have installed and tested it on an intel mac using Firefox and Safari, seems to work fine. I encourage other people to give it a try. I think this will be an important selling point for people designing computer labs. -Marshall On Dec 24, 8:56 am, Jason Grout

[sage-devel] performace issue for generic polynomial rings

2008-12-24 Thread YannLC
replacing multiplications by shift in quo_rem found polynomial_element_generic.py gives great improvement on this tiny example: sage: R.=PolynomialRing(GF(4,'a')) sage: P=R.random_element(20) sage: Q=R.random_element(256) sage: time Q % P before: CPU time: 0.08 s, Wall time: 0.08 s after: CPU

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:37 AM, mhampton wrote: > > I mentioned the polymake problem a while ago, with a simple fix (just > changing the version of cddlib it points to), and Michael wanted to do > a more complete/automatic fix, so it rotted quietly for a while. But > I have been installing it o

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 6:37 am, mhampton wrote: Hi Marshall, > I mentioned the polymake problem a while ago, with a simple fix (just > changing the version of cddlib it points to) No, this is exactly the problem. You fix it so it works for the current version, but once we change either gmp or cddlib it

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread mhampton
I mentioned the polymake problem a while ago, with a simple fix (just changing the version of cddlib it points to), and Michael wanted to do a more complete/automatic fix, so it rotted quietly for a while. But I have been installing it off and on since then by manually changing the spkg install.

[sage-devel] Re: polymake

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 11:13 pm, "William Stein" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:02 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, Hi, > > I propose moving the polymake spkg to be experimental instead of > > optional.  If anybody cares, please respond to this email.  It's > > crystal clear having looked at the po

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 12:53 am, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Georg, > the wording "... was just not documented ...", "... documentation > problem ...",  has been used so often now in this thread, that it just > moved up in my priority list (for this Example C Library theme) to the > lone ver

[sage-devel] Re: hermes optional spkg

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
Ok, so I poked around a little more: The current website is http://hermes.roua.org/ - the last release is "Download latest version: 0.9.12, released on 28 Nov. 2006" hermes is "a semantic XML+MathML+Unicode e-publishing/self-archiving tool for LaTeX authored scientific articles" [what ever that

[sage-devel] Re: hermes optional spkg

2008-12-24 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:42 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I propose removing the hermes optional spkg from the optional repo, > and putting it in experimental. Does anybody care about or use that > spkg? I have no real idea where it came from, who made it, etc., or > even what it does!

[sage-devel] Re: hermes optional spkg

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 9:42 pm, "William Stein" wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I propose removing the hermes optional spkg from the optional repo, > and putting it in experimental.  Does anybody care about or use that > spkg?  I have no real idea where it came from, who made it, etc., or > even what it does!  See >

[sage-devel] Re: integrating existing python script into sage

2008-12-24 Thread vivek
Thanks a lot Mr. Stein. Finally, I could successfully integrate it with my existing installation. On Dec 24, 12:04 pm, "William Stein" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:04 PM, vivek wrote: > > > Hi > > > Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. > > > But I wasn't able to install qasm spkg. > > I t

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-24 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Michael, the wording "... was just not documented ...", "... documentation problem ...", has been used so often now in this thread, that it just moved up in my priority list (for this Example C Library theme) to the lone very top position. So I'll not do an "exampleclib-1.1.0.spkg" or so, bef