[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.alpha0 released!

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 7:30 pm, kcrisman wrote: Hi, > Builds from scratch fine on OSX.4 on PPC G4.  I do have a couple > random things which came out of it, but I assume these are known - > just in case, I post them: > > 1. I get this error message during the Sphinx run: > > docstring of > sage.schemes.e

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.alpha0 released!

2009-04-25 Thread kcrisman
Builds from scratch fine on OSX.4 on PPC G4. I do have a couple random things which came out of it, but I assume these are known - just in case, I post them: 1. I get this error message during the Sphinx run: docstring of sage.schemes.elliptic_curves.ell_rational_field.EllipticCurve_rational_fi

[sage-devel] Re: sage and symbolic software design

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > I just started preparing for a talk next Friday in an > NSF workshop on "Future Directions of Computaton > Research" in the "Symbolic Software Design" section. Therefore, How long is your talk? Is it at NSF (so maybe a 10-minute

[sage-devel] Re: showcase your new features in Sage 3.4.1

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > Just wanted to thank you for the awesome job you've done on the > release tour. It's really impressive work. I personally find it very > useful. Looking at how much got added just in sage-3.4.1 is totally mind boggling (!). -- William > >

[sage-devel] Re: showcase your new features in Sage 3.4.1

2009-04-25 Thread Bill Hart
Just wanted to thank you for the awesome job you've done on the release tour. It's really impressive work. I personally find it very useful. Bill. On 26 Apr, 02:48, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > The release tour for Sage 3.4.1 is pretty much done now. You can find it at > > http://wiki.sag

[sage-devel] showcase your new features in Sage 3.4.1

2009-04-25 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, The release tour for Sage 3.4.1 is pretty much done now. You can find it at http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-3.4.1 Just in case I've forgotten to showcase new features you've introduced in Sage 3.4.1, this is a friendly reminder for you to alert me to them or for you to do it yourself. T

[sage-devel] Re: load/attach bugs

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rado wrote: > > Sweet, I will give it a shot. > > One last thing I noticed is that attached_files() is not exposed to > the user. Again not sure if this is how its supposed to work or an > actual bug. But if one can attach without refering to a library it > would

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.alpha0 released!

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 5:53 am, David Joyner wrote: Hi David, > Wow! I have stunning news (for me anyway): > > This compiles perfectly *and passes all tests* on ubuntu 64bit 8.10 > with a phenom chip. Well, give the trouble you have seen in the past with your specific setup this clearly indicates clisp si

[sage-devel] Re: boehm_gc in Sage

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Abbott
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, mabshoff wrote: > boehm_gc is required by ecl - at least the way we will build ecl since > the default tarball of ecl ships with outdated copies of gmp and > boehm_gc. The switch from clisp to ecl has been long delayed, but it > ought to be in 4.0 since clisp 2.47 still does

[sage-devel] Re: boehm_gc in Sage

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 2:44 pm, Tim Abbott wrote: > Hello, Hi Tim, > I was wondering why boehm_gc is a standard Sage package.  It seems that it > isn't actually a dependency of anything in spkg/standard/deps; is that > because it is only used by the sage library and a there's a missing > dependency, or i

[sage-devel] Re: load/attach bugs

2009-04-25 Thread Rado
Sweet, I will give it a shot. One last thing I noticed is that attached_files() is not exposed to the user. Again not sure if this is how its supposed to work or an actual bug. But if one can attach without refering to a library it would make sense to see what is currently attached again without

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.alpha0 released!

2009-04-25 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Apr 24, 2009, at 03:07 , mabshoff wrote: > here goes 3.4.2.alpha0. It does not contain all the fixes I wanted, > but I merged two large (200kb+) patches (#5610 and #5848) that touched > a lot of files and that were in danger of bitrotting. Since I > considered it pointless to force people to

[sage-devel] boehm_gc in Sage

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Abbott
Hello, I was wondering why boehm_gc is a standard Sage package. It seems that it isn't actually a dependency of anything in spkg/standard/deps; is that because it is only used by the sage library and a there's a missing dependency, or is something else going on? -Tim Abbott --~--~--

[sage-devel] C++ and Cython

2009-04-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
This summer Danilo Freitas got accepted to work on better C++ support for Cython as a GSoC project. This is a great opportunity to make it easier to wrap and use C++ code from Python. We are still in the planning stages, and I want to get input from those who've used both: what do you want

[sage-devel] Re: Trouble building 3.4.1 on Mac Pro

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 10:04 am, Jonathan Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble with building gmp-mpir in sage 3.4.1 on my Mac Pro.  I > have previously successfully built 3.1.2 without any difficulty.  Any > comments are appreciated.  Thanks, > > -Jon >  =) Hi Jon, The issue is known and has been fi

[sage-devel] sage and symbolic software design

2009-04-25 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I just started preparing for a talk next Friday in an NSF workshop on "Future Directions of Computaton Research" in the "Symbolic Software Design" section. Therefore, I think I should say something about the work on pynac and how it will be replacing maxima. I tried the wiki to see what was t

[sage-devel] Re: is_Integer() function semantics

2009-04-25 Thread nirmal
> snip > > > [n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n)] > > You are doing this from the command line, yes?   I am doing this in the notebook() -Nirmal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this g

[sage-devel] Re: is_Integer() function semantics

2009-04-25 Thread Nick Alexander
> [n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n+1)] snip > [n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n)] You are doing this from the command line, yes? The first is getting preparsed, so that 1 is not a python int, it is a sage Integer: sage: preparse('[n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n+1)]') '[

[sage-devel] Trouble building 3.4.1 on Mac Pro

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Hanke
Hi, I'm having trouble with building gmp-mpir in sage 3.4.1 on my Mac Pro. I have previously successfully built 3.1.2 without any difficulty. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks, -Jon =) --- The Hardware overview is Model N

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan ; categories

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > >> At this stage I do believe you might have a hard time getting this >> into 4.0 given the time frame and the ToDo list, but we will see what >> happens :) > > I let you pickup the best option. > >> Aren't there major design issues like

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan ; categories

2009-04-25 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
> At this stage I do believe you might have a hard time getting this > into 4.0 given the time frame and the ToDo list, but we will see what > happens :) I let you pickup the best option. > Aren't there major design issues like dynamic classes to be > discussed first? You mentioned a design docu

[sage-devel] Re: is_Integer() function semantics

2009-04-25 Thread nirmal
> How could you not notice?   If I do is_Integer I get a big DeprecationWarning: > Does your Sage not do that? The reason I did not notice it is that is_Integer() was in the body of a main loop and no warnings were printed. For example, [n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n+1)] returns [0,

[sage-devel] Re: is_Integer() function semantics

2009-04-25 Thread nirmal
> How could you not notice?   If I do is_Integer I get a big DeprecationWarning: > Does your Sage not do that? The reason I did not notice it is that is_Integer() was in the body of a main loop and no warnings were printed. For example, [n for n in range(0,10) if is_Integer(n+1)] returns [0,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2.alpha0 released!

2009-04-25 Thread David Joyner
Wow! I have stunning news (for me anyway): This compiles perfectly *and passes all tests* on ubuntu 64bit 8.10 with a phenom chip. This is the first time that has happened in more releases than I can remember! Great job to everyone involed, which definitely includes Michael Abshoff. On Fri, A

[sage-devel] Re: comparison of morphisms

2009-04-25 Thread Alex Ghitza
3. as I mentioned, I looked in rings/morphism.pyx for inspiration; this helped, but not enough so I tried sage: f = ZZ.hom(QQ) sage: g = loads(dumps(f)) sage: f == g False Shouldn't this return True? >> >> Yes >>   Shouldn't a test like this be somewher

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan ; categories

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 12:13 am, "Nicolas M. Thiery" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:24:38PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: Hi Nicolas, > I really would want to get the category code in Sage soon (4.0???): At this stage I do believe you might have a hard time getting this into 4.0 given the time frame and

[sage-devel] Re: Gpu Computing...

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 25, 2:15 am, ahmet alper parker wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there anyone who has knowledge about it and its possible future > benefits to scientific computing (especially for sage + maxima etc.) > of the GPU computing with the new Nvidia Tesla platform? > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla

[sage-devel] Gpu Computing...

2009-04-25 Thread ahmet alper parker
Hi All, Is there anyone who has knowledge about it and its possible future benefits to scientific computing (especially for sage + maxima etc.) of the GPU computing with the new Nvidia Tesla platform? http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html Quote: "Powered by the Tesla C1060

[sage-devel] Re: more trouble with comparisons

2009-04-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > >> >> Translation, if it's not clear. It got a coercion map f, tried to >> call f(x), and f(x) returned None which is clearly a bug for whoever >> implemented the morphism in question. >> > > That helped me track it down to > > {{{ > sage: X = Spe

[sage-devel] Re: more trouble with comparisons

2009-04-25 Thread Alex Ghitza
> > Translation, if it's not clear. It got a coercion map f, tried to > call f(x), and f(x) returned None which is clearly a bug for whoever > implemented the morphism in question. > That helped me track it down to {{{ sage: X = Spec(ZZ) sage: H = Homset(X, X) sage: H(X.identity_morphism()) }}}

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan ; categories

2009-04-25 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:24:38PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > while there should be a quick 3.4.2 to mop up patches from trac before > the big 4.0 jump today we had a planning session during the UW status > meeting about the goals for Sage 4.0. The result is at > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/plan/

[sage-devel] Most 3.4.1 binaries are available in http://www.sagemath.org/bin/

2009-04-25 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, nearly all binaries for 3.4.1 are available in http://www.sagemath.org/bin/ (as the title says). All x86 and x86-64 Linux binary as well as the VMWare image are now SSE2 only, i.e. there are some performance regressions as mentioned yesterday in a thread here, for example RDF matrix