[sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Categories review: the last ones?

2009-11-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:45:14AM -0700, David Kohel wrote: I don't have a strong opinion whether OrderedSets (or Monoids) should have total or partial ordering. However, since there is a possible ambiguity, my preference is to not use OrderedX as an alias for either PartiallyOrderedX or

[sage-devel] Re: Reviews needed in Graph Theory !

2009-11-01 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello !!! The two coloring functions are meant to output a number when the user is just interested in the number of classes, but the most natural behaviour for these functions is to output a partition of the vertices ( of the edges ) such that each class is an independent set. As the former

[sage-devel] Re: Categories review: the last ones?

2009-11-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:57:09PM +0100, Florent hivert wrote: [...] For this reason, I don't think CategoryWithBasis (or more generally CategoryWith[Free]Generators) is a natural category -- unless the generators are structures intended to be preserved, as is the case with a category

[sage-devel] Re: Categories review: the last ones?

2009-11-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Nicolas Thiéry wrote: Most of this discussion boils down to a confusion about what categories are/should be in Sage. IMHO: they are a design pattern, supported by a programming construct. The main purpose is of course to model mathematical

[sage-devel] Re: problem compiling polybori (sage-4.2)[solved]

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 01 November 2009, François Bissey wrote: By the way it looks like the sage version of polybori doesn't depend on libm4ri Can you clarify what you mean by that? Do you mean in the Makefile? which means the internal copy is used (unless you perform an upgrade which include a

[sage-devel] Re: sqrt(2) is real or not

2009-11-01 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hi, I agree that sqrt(2) 1 ;) the problem is the one Jason has developed : the comparison returns a symbolic expression ! Morever, It works well for min and max functions : {{{ sage: max(sqrt(2), 1) sqrt(2) sage: min(sqrt(2), 1) 1 }}} Why max(sqrt(2), 1) not a symbolic expression ? Vincent

[sage-devel] Re: Categories review: the last ones?

2009-11-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:45:14AM -0700, David Kohel wrote: I don't have a strong opinion whether OrderedSets (or Monoids) should have total or partial ordering. However, since there is a possible ambiguity, my preference is to not use OrderedX as an alias for either PartiallyOrderedX or

Re: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: Categories restart

2009-11-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear William, dear David, Very few categories are left unreviewed. Please comment shortly on the points below, or set a positive review! Cheers, Nicolas On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:04:45AM +0200, Nicolas Thiéry wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at

[sage-devel] Categories review: the last ones?

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:36:50PM +0100, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: So, what do we do with the preexisting OrderedSets and OrderedMonoids? Does anyone care if we just break backward compatibility by discarding them? I guess the current policy is that we should have their __init__ methods

[sage-devel] deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
Dear sage-devel, A while back we decided that we shouldn't just randomly break users' existing code even if the reason is very good (e.g. there are 20 names for the exact same thing, and 19 of them are just bad, or we want to change to a better convention for something). The idea was that

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alex Ghitza wrote: Dear sage-devel, A while back we decided that we shouldn't just randomly break users' existing code even if the reason is very good (e.g. there are 20 names for the exact same thing, and 19 of them are just bad, or we want to change to a better convention for

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Vincent Delecroix wrote: Hi, As you probably knows, Sage is also a company (http://www.sage.com). It provides financial or buisness software solution. In particular, the name Sage is a registered trademark at the Patent Office (UK) under the number 2387 (?). It concerns any software

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
- Tim Joseph Dumol tim (at) timdumol (dot) com On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.netwrote: Alex Ghitza wrote: Dear sage-devel, A while back we decided that we shouldn't just randomly break users' existing code even if the reason is very good

[sage-devel] Re: Iterating over finite fields

2009-11-01 Thread YannLC
Nice, but I think Givaro fields were not the only ones broken: K = Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: minpoly sage: K.a = GF(17^5) sage: K.list() --- TypeError Traceback (most

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Nathann Cohen
What would be the problem in using Sagemath, as it is the name of the website for example ? Besides, what is the use of such a procedure for Sage ? On Nov 1, 4:05 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Vincent Delecroix wrote: Hi, As you probably knows, Sage is also a company

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
What about deprecation warning and moving the deprecated functionality to an optional package in the next version of Sage with a clear notice that there is no official support for this optional package. Ralf --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
perhaps a vocabulary (simple html page or whatever else) which translates old names into new names would be also useful. On 1 lis, 16:37, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: What about deprecation warning and moving the deprecated functionality to an optional package in the next version of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Nathann Cohen wrote: What would be the problem in using Sagemath, as it is the name of the website for example ? Besides, what is the use of such a procedure for Sage ? I personally do not like Sagemath. Someone else expressed that view too. I personally prefer the name 'Sage' but I do

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread John Cremona
2009/11/1 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: In fact, documenting the reason for a name change, would show the wide range of areas to which Sage could be put. 'OpenMath' is one option I could think of, but I'm sure others could come up with something better. That is taken:

[sage-devel] Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There have been issues on Solaris with Sage if the version of tar used is not GNU tar. GNU uses it's own format for tar (how unusual), called 'gnu'. However, but according to the GNU tar manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Formats.html#SEC125 future versions of GNU tar

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 1 Nov., 19:30, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Is this really becoming a thread about changing the name from Sage to something quite different?  I hope not. Why not? Would you prefer being sued? Does the spelling make a difference? I have some weak remembrance saying

[sage-devel] Re: of Google Groups and spam

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Oct-31 19:58:21 -0700, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: through. Let me know if you know something better than google groups. Why not host the mailing list in house? We have a domain name and access to decent infrastructure. IMHO, a set of mailing lists in the form

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread John Cremona
2009/11/1 Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie: Hi! On 1 Nov., 19:30, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Is this really becoming a thread about changing the name from Sage to something quite different?  I hope not. Why not? Would you prefer being sued? (1) I'm old and set in

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Simon King
Hi John! On 1 Nov., 21:49, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Why not? Would you prefer being sued? (1) I'm old and set in  my ways (2) I like the name Sage -- I'm used to it, at least (3) I really just meant that I hoped that we would not be forced to change, and This is why I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Simon King wrote: Hi! On 1 Nov., 19:30, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Is this really becoming a thread about changing the name from Sage to something quite different? I hope not. Why not? Would you prefer being sued? Exactly. Does the spelling make a difference?

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread J Elaych
Well it looks like their software is financial in the business sense of bookkeeping and accounting and related business support. When someone uses Sage for financial applications its more for modeling and differential equations and stuff. After they lost the famasoft battle they may not want

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread Simon King
Hi David! On 1 Nov., 22:40, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: ... I think you need to remember that Sage is used in lots of countries. Asking a lawyer in one country might not be too useful if ... Good point. I guess both Sun and Google have lawiers that know about

[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Georg S. Weber wrote: As usual, tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old and outdated tar on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to work OK out of the box, I'm fine with changes. Could you place somewhere a foobar.tar.bz2 where the new tar is used, so

[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Georg S. Weber wrote: As usual, tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old and outdated tar on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to work OK out of the box, I'm fine with

[sage-devel] Re: of Google Groups and spam

2009-11-01 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: On 2009-Oct-31 19:58:21 -0700, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: through. Let me know if you know something better than google groups. Why not host the mailing list in house? We have a domain name and access to

[sage-devel] Re: of Google Groups and spam

2009-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: On 2009-Oct-31 19:58:21 -0700, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: through. Let me know if you know something better than google groups. Why not

[sage-devel] Re: problem compiling polybori (sage-4.2)[solved]

2009-11-01 Thread François Bissey
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:42:41 Martin Albrecht wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009, François Bissey wrote: By the way it looks like the sage version of polybori doesn't depend on libm4ri Can you clarify what you mean by that? Do you mean in the Makefile? The sage Makefile or more precisely

[sage-devel] A notebook frontend for (secondary) school

2009-11-01 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hello, I continue a preceeding thread opened on the sage-days group. It is better placed here, it concerns more developers than organizers. http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-days/browse_thread/thread/faf13e9077eebf0d For SAGE days in Marseille (France), we aim to develop an

[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Nathann Cohen wrote: What would be the problem in using Sagemath, as it is the name of the website for example ? Besides, what is the use of such a procedure for Sage ? I personally do not like Sagemath.

[sage-devel] Need reviewer for libgrypt (disabling assembler)

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Libgcrypt is a package which has some assembly code routines. An option to the configure script --disable-asm will disable the use of assembly code. This is known to be necessary on OS X. I've also found it is essential on Solaris SPARC in 64-bit mode. I've now found it is sometimes

[sage-devel] Re: A notebook frontend for (secondary) school

2009-11-01 Thread Rob Beezer
Vincent, I like your idea, and wonder if you might not post to sage-edu where I know some secondary school teachers regularly read and post. I noticed in your patch that you have some graph theory being included. Will that include the graph constructors? In other words, will commands like

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread Stan Schymanski
I would love to have a script that converts old names in a whole worksheet to new names. Every time someone deprecates an old name, he could add the relevant line to the script. Would that be possible? What I would love even more, is a notebook conversion function such as the one that

[sage-devel] Re: Need reviewer for libgrypt (disabling assembler)

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Libgcrypt is a package which has some assembly code routines. An option to the configure script --disable-asm will disable the use of assembly code. This is known to be necessary on OS X. I've also found it is essential on Solaris SPARC in 64-bit mode. I've

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Stan Schymanski schym...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to have a script that converts old names in a whole worksheet to new names. Every time someone deprecates an old name, he could add the relevant line to the script. Would that be possible? What I would