[sage-devel] Doc testing regression

2009-06-21 Thread Simon King
Dear all, at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/534306c87e7fac7a I was asking about the apparently changed behaviour of sage -t. Georg suggested to move the discussion to sage-devel, so, here it is... On 20 Jun., 22:10, gsw georgswe...@googlemail.com wrote: On 20

[sage-devel] Website says latest is 4.0.1, but link to source shows 4.0.2

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Title pretty much says it all. http://www.sagemath.org/ says Download 4.0.1 following the links and one finds a link to http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/src/sage-4.0.2.tar Easy to fix I guess. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Doc testing regression

2009-06-21 Thread gsw
On 21 Jun., 08:28, Simon King simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: Dear all, athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/5343... I was asking about the apparently changed behaviour of sage -t. Georg suggested to move the discussion to sage-devel, so, here it is... On 20

[sage-devel] Re: mpfr 2.4.1 build issue on Solaris with gcc 4.4.0

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Before building gcc 4.4.0 on 't2' I needed to build mpfr, as it is perquisite for gcc. I built the latest version of mpfr (2.4.1) using the Sun supplied gcc 3.4.2 in /usr/sfw/bin. mpfr built and passed all 148 tests. With the aid: 1) The aid of a patch to

[sage-devel] sage 4.0.1 on linux mandriva/testing

2009-06-21 Thread Harald Schilly
I just found this one: http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandriva/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib/testing/sagemath-4.0.1-4mdv2010.0.i586.html H --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

[sage-devel] Re: mpfr 2.4.1 build issue on Solaris with gcc 4.4.0

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Before building gcc 4.4.0 on 't2' I needed to build mpfr, as it is perquisite for gcc. I built the latest version of mpfr (2.4.1) using the Sun supplied gcc 3.4.2 in /usr/sfw/bin. mpfr built and passed all 148

[sage-devel] Re: Website says latest is 4.0.1, but link to source shows 4.0.2

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: Title pretty much says it all. http://www.sagemath.org/ says Download 4.0.1 following the links and one finds a link to http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/src/sage-4.0.2.tar Easy to fix I guess. This is *on purpose*. We don't

[sage-devel] Inclusion Procedure for New Packages

2009-06-21 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
I quote from http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/inclusion.html which is about the inclusion procedure for new packages. The first requirement is written as: The license must be a GPL version 2+ compatible license. (This will be publicly revisited around Jan 15, 2009.) Whatever was

[sage-devel] Re: Is ntl-5.4.2.p7 setting the output name of the shared library twice ?

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: In the patches directory of ntl-5.4.2.p7 there are two files which I'd consider makefiles (i.e. make would understand them) -rw-r-   1 kirkby   1093         443 Mar 24  2008 ntl_makefile -rw-r--r--   1 kirkby   1093       17194 May 11  

[sage-devel] GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/21 Bjarke Hammersholt Roune bjarke.ro...@gmail.com: I quote from  http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/inclusion.html which is about the inclusion procedure for new packages. The first requirement is written as:  The license must be a GPL version 2+ compatible license. (This will

[sage-devel] Re: Nasty simplify() bug in symbolics

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/20 Golam Mortuza Hossain gmhoss...@gmail.com: Hi, It seems that there is a major bug in new symbolics simplify() method involving D and symbolic function (Sage-4.0.1). --- sage: f(x) = function('f',x) sage: f(-x).diff(x) -D[0](f)(-x) sage: f(-x).diff(x).simplify()

[sage-devel] Re: sage 4.0.2.rc3 released

2009-06-21 Thread gsw
On 19 Jun., 08:28, gsw georgswe...@googlemail.com wrote: I checked back for the my Sage-4.0.1 Intel Mac OS X 10.4 build and unfortunately yes, this problem is there, too --- so the currently bdist'ed version is flawed :-/ I don't seem to have my Sage-4.0 logs anymore, but I found those

[sage-devel] Re: Is ntl-5.4.2.p7 setting the output name of the shared library twice ?

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: 2009/6/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: In the patches directory of ntl-5.4.2.p7 there are two files which I'd consider makefiles (i.e. make would understand them) -rw-r- 1 kirkby 1093 443 Mar 24 2008 ntl_makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 kirkby

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread gsw
On 21 Jun., 15:54, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Bjarke Hammersholt Roune bjarke.ro...@gmail.com: I quote from  http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/inclusion.html which is about the inclusion procedure for new packages. The first requirement is written as:  

[sage-devel] Re: Doc testing regression

2009-06-21 Thread gsw
On 21 Jun., 15:37, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 gsw georgswe...@googlemail.com: On 21 Jun., 08:28, Simon King simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: Dear all, athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/5343... I was asking about the apparently

[sage-devel] Re: Is ntl-5.4.2.p7 setting the output name of the shared library twice ?

2009-06-21 Thread John Cremona
I just looked at the release notes for NTL 5.5 (http://www.shoup.net/ntl/doc/tour-changes.html). There are only two things. One is fixing gmp's xgcd function (which should not matter to Sage since Sage now uses mpir and not gmp, right? and wasn't that very thing one reason for the gmp/mpir

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
2009/6/21 gsw georgswe...@googlemail.com: On 21 Jun., 15:54, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Bjarke Hammersholt Roune bjarke.ro...@gmail.com: I quote from  http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/inclusion.html which is about the inclusion procedure for new packages.

[sage-devel] precision issue converting from pari complex

2009-06-21 Thread John Cremona
This should be of interest to anyone who has ever had to manage precision issues between Sage and pari real and complex numbers (e.g. Alex Ghitza). Others can move on. In the conversion of a pari complex number back to Sage (in sage/libs/pari/gen_py.py in the function python(z)), the precision

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread Nick Alexander
Let's set up a regular time frame to publicly revisit the Sage licensing, say in yearly intervals. I believe that other projects have had difficulty tracking down people who contributed code in the past when trying to deal with licensing issues. Why is our project different? Nick

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Nick Alexanderncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Let's set up a regular time frame to publicly revisit the Sage licensing, say in yearly intervals. I believe that other projects have had difficulty tracking down people who contributed code in the past when trying

[sage-devel] Re: precision issue converting from pari complex

2009-06-21 Thread gsw
Hi John, On 21 Jun., 17:47, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: This should be of interest to anyone who has ever had to manage precision issues between Sage and pari real and complex numbers (e.g. Alex Ghitza).  Others can move on. In the conversion of a pari complex number back to

[sage-devel] Was shared libraries added to ATLAS in Sage ?

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
When I tried to build Sage on my Blade 2000 with gcc 4.4.0 configured to use the Sun linker, so it failed to build, when building ATLAS. make[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/drkirkby/sage/sage-4.0.2/spkg/build/atlas-3.8.3.p3/ATLAS-build/lib' ld -shared -soname libatlas.so -o

[sage-devel] Re: precision issue converting from pari complex

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:38 PM, gswgeorgswe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi John, On 21 Jun., 17:47, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: This should be of interest to anyone who has ever had to manage precision issues between Sage and pari real and complex numbers (e.g. Alex Ghitza).  

[sage-devel] Re: Was shared libraries added to ATLAS in Sage ?

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I downloaded the ATLAS source code from sourceforge, built, tested and installed that with no problem at all. However, I note it only maked static libraries, not shared libraries on my Sun Blade 2000. I would add, building, testing, *tuning* and installing ATLAS

[sage-devel] Re: precision issue converting from pari complex

2009-06-21 Thread John Cremona
2009/6/21 William Stein wst...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:38 PM, gswgeorgswe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi John, On 21 Jun., 17:47, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: This should be of interest to anyone who has ever had to manage precision issues between Sage and pari

[sage-devel] Re: sage 4.0.2.rc3 released

2009-06-21 Thread Craig Citro
Hi Georg, The root cause was the patch for trac #2513 which was incorporated in Sage-4.0.2.alpha4, concerning the setting (or not ...) of the variable LANG in the sage-env script. I'll prepare a nice patch with some explanations for the R.spkg's spkg-install script to use 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[sage-devel] Re: Is ntl-5.4.2.p7 setting the output name of the shared library twice ?

2009-06-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: 2009/6/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: In the patches directory of ntl-5.4.2.p7 there are two files which I'd consider makefiles (i.e. make would understand them) -rw-r- 1 kirkby 1093 443 Mar 24 2008 ntl_makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 kirkby

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.0.2

2009-06-21 Thread john_perry_usm
The spkg also works on a Fedora 11, x86_64 box. regards john perry On Jun 20, 11:13 am, Andrzej Giniewicz ggi...@gmail.com wrote: Final update on my Arch Linux current try - with #6362 all tests passed! On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Andrzej Giniewiczggi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, small

[sage-devel] How to get into developing Sage slides

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi, as mentioned earlier I am preparing a talk on how to get started with Sage development for Tuesday here at SD16. A first rc for my set of slides is at: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/malb/talks/sagedev.pdf It still seems rather dull to be honest. I'd appreciate any input.

[sage-devel] Re: How to get into developing Sage slides

2009-06-21 Thread David Joyner
I liked it:-) Great job! On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Martin Albrechtm...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Hi, as mentioned earlier I am preparing a talk on how to get started with Sage development for Tuesday here at SD16. A first rc for my set of slides is at:

[sage-devel] Re: How to get into developing Sage slides

2009-06-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Martin, On 6/22/09, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Hi, as mentioned earlier I am preparing a talk on how to get started with Sage development for Tuesday here at SD16. A first rc for my set of slides is at:

[sage-devel] 100% doctesting question

2009-06-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, one of the rule for getting code into Sage is 100% doctesting --- what does it mean exactly? At least one doctest per function/method? Is there some tool to check that? I think I remember there was some script for it, but I can't find it now. However, at least to me, just one doctest per

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, William Steinwst...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody who cares a lot have a strong opinion on whether Sage should start allowing in new libraries that are licensed GPLv3+?  If so, why?   Please, no flamebait, unless you post only to the sage-flame mailing list

[sage-devel] Re: 100% doctesting question

2009-06-21 Thread Rob Beezer
Ondrej, I believe the tools you want are sage -coverage files sage -coverageall which you can find again listed when you do sage -advanced Rob On Jun 21, 4:41 pm, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: Hi, one of the rule for getting code into Sage is 100% doctesting --- what does it

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Gonzalo Tornariatorna...@math.utexas.edu wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, William Steinwst...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody who cares a lot have a strong opinion on whether Sage should start allowing in new libraries that are licensed GPLv3+?  If so,

[sage-devel] Re: 100% doctesting question

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Ondrej Certikond...@certik.cz wrote: Hi, one of the rule for getting code into Sage is 100% doctesting --- what does it mean exactly? At least one doctest per function/method? Yes. Is there some tool to check that? Yes. I think I remember there was

[sage-devel] Re: How to get into developing Sage slides

2009-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Martin Albrechtm...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Hi, as mentioned earlier I am preparing a talk on how to get started with Sage development for Tuesday here at SD16. A first rc for my set of slides is at:  

[sage-devel] Re: 100% doctesting question

2009-06-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Rob Beezergoo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: Ondrej, I believe the tools you want are sage -coverage files sage -coverageall Yes, thanks! It's in local/bin/sage-coverage. Here is an example: $ sage -coverage devel/sage/sage/calculus/calculus.py

[sage-devel] Re: GPL v2+ restriction

2009-06-21 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:14 PM, William Steinwst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Gonzalo Tornariatorna...@math.utexas.edu wrote: At some point in time, Sage included code which was GPLv2 only. Authors were requested to extend their license to be GPLv2+, to allow the

[sage-devel] Re: How to get into developing Sage slides

2009-06-21 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Martin, Very nice! It's been on my Sage to-do list for some time to attempt something similar for the wiki or the developer's guide. At a minimum, I hope this presentation can get a pointer from the wiki (once its completed) from someplace other than just the SD16 pages. Some suggestions: