[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Alex Clemesha wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new >> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program >> and rewriting the expec

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread Alex Clemesha
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new > bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program > and rewriting the expect stuff).  But I realized that it would be a > total nightmare to

[sage-devel] Re: spkg-install's [was Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!]

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:35 PM, gsw wrote: > > What I currently miss is the possibility to cross-compile Sage. > > I heartily would like to build the MacPPC Sage version on my MacIntel. > The OS infrastructure is well prepared for this, any Xcode brings > everything with it to do that. But I do

[sage-devel] upcoming sage days

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
Hi, This is the current picture regarding upcoming Sage Days: This one is funded by the Clay Math Institute and some invites have gone out: * [[dayscambridge2|Sage Days 18]] -- Cambridge, MA (December 1-5, 2009); theme: BSD (Number theory) This one is likely to be funded by the NSA: * (tenta

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:16 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new >>> bugs fixed (after separatin

[sage-devel] Re: spkg-install's [was Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!]

2009-10-11 Thread gsw
What I currently miss is the possibility to cross-compile Sage. I heartily would like to build the MacPPC Sage version on my MacIntel. The OS infrastructure is well prepared for this, any Xcode brings everything with it to do that. But I don't know whether (or how) I could tell Python/Cython to c

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new >> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program >> and rewriting the expec

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new > bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program > and rewriting the expect stuff).  But I realized that it would be a > total nightmare to

[sage-devel] notebook help needed

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
Hi, Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program and rewriting the expect stuff). But I realized that it would be a total nightmare to introduce yet another sobj ("sage object") storage format, which woul

[sage-devel] Re: Issues with plotting on Intel Mac 64 bit?

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Mike Hansen wrote: > > However, >> there are plenty of ones that we don't have a fix for -- see #7095.  I >> think there are a couple threads on sage-devel about this. > > > Should we be holding up 4.1.2 for issues that (according to what you

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest for a minor bugfix?

2009-10-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Monday 12 October 2009, Kwankyu wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a patch to remove the redundant minus sign in the last output > in the following: > > sage: from sage.rings.polynomial.multi_polynomial_ring import > MPolynomialRing_polydict > sage: R.=MPolynomialRing_polydict(GF(2),2,order='lex') > sa

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest for a minor bugfix?

2009-10-11 Thread Kwankyu
Thanks. I forgot the Tests section. Kwankyu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 htt

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest for a minor bugfix?

2009-10-11 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Kwankyu, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Kwankyu wrote: > Do I need to put a doctest anyway? Yes. Put the doctest under a section called "TESTS:" and make sure to reference the relevant ticket number. Doctests under the section "TESTS:" are meant to demonstrate that a bug has been fixed.

[sage-devel] Doctest for a minor bugfix?

2009-10-11 Thread Kwankyu
Hi, I wrote a patch to remove the redundant minus sign in the last output in the following: sage: from sage.rings.polynomial.multi_polynomial_ring import MPolynomialRing_polydict sage: R.=MPolynomialRing_polydict(GF(2),2,order='lex') sage: R Multivariate Polynomial Ring in x, y over Finite Field

[sage-devel] screencast: how to create a new ticket on trac

2009-10-11 Thread Minh Nguyen
I have made a screencast tutorial on creating a new ticket on trac. See my blog post on wordpress.com [1]. This video tutorial was inspired by the "Tech Tip Videos" of Linux Journal [2]. The idea is that, when things are easier to show by a screencast, then show it using a screencast instead of us

[sage-devel] Re: spkg-install's [was Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!]

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> >> Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >>> Would it make more sense to include something like busybox >>> (www.busybox.net) into sage? >> >> I do not believe so. > > [snip] > >> Sage is

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >> Would it make more sense to include something like busybox >> (www.busybox.net) into sage? > > I do not believe so. [snip] > Sage is designed to run on workstations and servers, not small embedded > systems.

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > Would it make more sense to include something like busybox > (www.busybox.net) into sage? I do not believe so. > Busybox includes a shell (ash, I think), > and most shellutils and textutils one would probably want to use (this > includes awk, sed, etc). Instead of try

[sage-devel] Re: another blocker ticket for Sage-4.1.2

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:34 AM, MaxTheMouse wrote: > > >> >> I believe there will be an ECL release any day now. One was made >> earlier this week I believe, but it had a serious problem. I've no >> idea if any hard-coded paths were found and fixed in the last release. >> >> dave > > I did a qui

[sage-devel] Very fast transcendental functions and expression evaluation

2009-10-11 Thread Fredrik Johansson
Hi all, This is mostly some random brainstorming. MPFR (which Sage uses for arbitrary-precision real and complex numbers) is an excellent library, but it's far from optimal in some respects. For one thing, the interface (correct rounding assuming exact inputs) is coarse for doing computations wit

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-11 Thread Marshall Hampton
I'd be happy to, although I will have a pro-positive review bias. -Marshall On Oct 11, 4:50 am, MaxTheMouse wrote: > I have put up a new package > athttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/awebb/biopython-1.52.p0.spkg > if someone would like to review it. > > Adam --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
Would it make more sense to include something like busybox (www.busybox.net) into sage? Busybox includes a shell (ash, I think), and most shellutils and textutils one would probably want to use (this includes awk, sed, etc). Instead of trying to fix the sage shell scripts to work in any combinati

[sage-devel] Re: test if expression depends on another expression

2009-10-11 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 11 říj, 15:50, Burcin Erocal wrote: > > Does this work for you? Yes, thanks! > > Cheers, > Burcin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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..

[sage-devel] Re: test if expression depends on another expression

2009-10-11 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi Robert, On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:30:14 -0700 (PDT) "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: > Hello all, is there in Sage a function which tests, if expression1 > depends on expression2 ? > Something like Maxima's command freeof? Symbolic expressions have methods named find, match, has. > sage: x=var(

[sage-devel] Re: Could an acknowledgment of http://www.metamodul.com/ be added on web site?

2009-10-11 Thread Harald Schilly
yes, done! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-d

[sage-devel] Could an acknowledgment of http://www.metamodul.com/ be added on web site?

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
As Ming noted, I have tested a patch under AIX compliments of http://www.metamodul.com/ Could an acknowledgment of that be placed on the Sage web site. Something like "http://www.metamodul.com/ for access to hardware running AIX" Dave --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > > >> Learn more from my ticket at >> >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 > > I was attracted by the following comment of yours: > > {{{ > I've tested this on > > * AIX 6.1, compli

[sage-devel] test if expression depends on another expression

2009-10-11 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Hello all, is there in Sage a function which tests, if expression1 depends on expression2 ? Something like Maxima's command freeof? I searched Sage sources against 'freeof 'and found nothing relevant. If not, I think that it will be usefull to add the following function into Sage, but I have no

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Learn more from my ticket at > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 I was attracted by the following comment of yours: {{{ I've tested this on * AIX 6.1, compliments of http://www.metamodul.com/10.html }}} Th

[sage-devel] Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I thought all you mathematicians could not resist looking at this. I know it sounds crazy, but it actually forms the basis of a portable method of getting the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 on Unix. Learn more from my ticket at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 which needs review!

[sage-devel] Re: another blocker ticket for Sage-4.1.2

2009-10-11 Thread MaxTheMouse
> > I believe there will be an ECL release any day now. One was made > earlier this week I believe, but it had a serious problem. I've no > idea if any hard-coded paths were found and fixed in the last release. > > dave I did a quick build and check with ecl-10.0.2 and the hard-coded paths are s

Re: [sage-notebook] Re: [sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-10-11 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:38, William Stein wrote: > That's it.  It worked first try, and solves the problem. I'm not a twisted expert, but i know a lot about threads and sub processes. The basic problem is, that the user calls something synchronized when he/she requests a zip, but behind the s

[sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-10-11 Thread Glenn Tarbox, PhD
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:38 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: > > > > > > The Sage Notebook is a Twisted application, and Twisted's "deferreds" > might seem like a good idea for solving the above problem. However, > they are actually *not*

[sage-devel] Gnuplot 1.8

2009-10-11 Thread MaxTheMouse
Hi, There have been a couple of requests on sage-support in regards to Gnuplot.py. The current package was broken in the upgrade to Python 2.6. The new version Gnuplot.py 1.8 works with Python 2.6 and has some updates with respect to Numpy. This is now Trac #7187 and there is a new package at htt

[sage-devel] Re: Doctest fails for Biopython-1.52.spkg

2009-10-11 Thread MaxTheMouse
I have put up a new package at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/awebb/biopython-1.52.p0.spkg if someone would like to review it. Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-10-11 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:12 AM, ghtdak wrote: > >> On Jul 21, 6:40 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" >> wrote: >>> ghtdak wrote: >>> This thread has gotten long and there are many subjects embedded within. >>> One of the problems I've