Re: [sage-devel] Re: input: and output: in docstrings

2009-12-15 Thread Mike Hansen
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:46 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > You can also use Sphinx/reST markup for this, described in the same > place.  Here is an example of how that looks: > > simplicial_complex.html#sage.homology.simplicial_complex.SimplicialC

[sage-devel] Re: Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Georg S. Weber wrote: >> Hmm, >> >> I don't quite get the point of your message. > > Sorry, > > I was trying to get some discussion, and hopefully understanding, of why > these > issues arise, with a hope to trying to fix them. It's clear the present > situation has '

Re: [sage-devel] Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Florent Hivert wrote: > Hi there, > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:44:50PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> I've noticed on several occasions people reporting issues when Sage includes >> a >> library which the system has. This causes conflicts with the linker, and can >> result in message

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Georg S. Weber wrote: > Hmm, > > I don't quite get the point of your message. Sorry, I was trying to get some discussion, and hopefully understanding, of why these issues arise, with a hope to trying to fix them. It's clear the present situation has 'issues' and to my knowledge, nobody has a f

[sage-devel] Re: Browser math rendering

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
cool-RR wrote: > Great. Sorry for double-posting, apparently the search feature is > broken in Google Groups. > > Also, I dream that it will be possible to also *type* math like that > in the browser, and have it become pretty in real-time. But this is > impressive right now as it is. > Like th

[sage-devel] Re: Browser math rendering

2009-12-15 Thread cool-RR
Great. Sorry for double-posting, apparently the search feature is broken in Google Groups. Also, I dream that it will be possible to also *type* math like that in the browser, and have it become pretty in real-time. But this is impressive right now as it is. Ram. On Dec 16, 12:42 am, Jason Grou

[sage-devel] Re: Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hmm, I don't quite get the point of your message. "Installing the dynamic library somewhere else and link it in by ... adding said library to the users LD_LIBRARY_PATH ..." is pretty much exactly the way things are designed and supposed to work (and actually do work to a large extent) in Sage. I

[sage-devel] Re: Browser math rendering

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
cool-RR wrote: > Guys, have you heard about this? > > http://www.mathjax.com Yes, isn't it exciting?! I can't wait for it. See this post from this morning: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/a8518afd8922ddc0 Thanks, Jason -- To post to this group, send an emai

[sage-devel] Browser math rendering

2009-12-15 Thread cool-RR
Guys, have you heard about this? http://www.mathjax.com Ram. -- 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/sag

[sage-devel] Re: graph theory tickets

2009-12-15 Thread kcrisman
Hi Robert (and Nathann), I won't have time to do the fix Nathann C. recommended in http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6522 (which isn't so much a fix as using new functionality) for changing the copy to __copy__ in graphs until at least Thursday. But presumably it would be good to merge th

[sage-devel] Re: input: and output: in docstrings

2009-12-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On Dec 15, 10:16 am, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > It has been brought to my attention that many docstrings in Sage do > not explicitly and clearly list their input and output in INPUT: and > OUTPUT: blocks.   There are only 2711 OUTPUT blocks and 4371 INPUT > blocks in sage-4.3: > >    wst...@sa

[sage-devel] Massive FLINT development update

2009-12-15 Thread Bill Hart
At Sage days 15 at the University of Washington, I spoke about FLINT and how I soon hoped to open it up completely for contribution from others. Since then an enormous amount of code has been contributed, especially, Andy Novocin and Sebastian Pancratz and also by Burcin Erocal. I also spoke about

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, William Stein wrote: > (affine algebra algebra/charsets algebra/solver calculus colnew colnew/lisp : : : >  orthopoly physics simplification sym tensor trigonometry utils vector) Well, that looks right. I don't see any indication that Maxima was searching al

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Robert Dodier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> (%i1) :lisp *maxima-sharedir* >> >> /home/wstein/build/sage/local/share/maxima/5.19.1/share >> (%i1) :lisp (directory (pathname (concatenate 'string *maxima-sharedir* >> "/"))) >>

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Dodier
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > (%i1) :lisp *maxima-sharedir* > > /home/wstein/build/sage/local/share/maxima/5.19.1/share > (%i1) :lisp (directory (pathname (concatenate 'string *maxima-sharedir* "/"))) > > (/scratch/wstein/build/sage/local/share/maxima/5.19.1/share/) So

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Raymond Toy wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Raymond Toy wrote: >> >> >> We're using ecl.  You can get the exact same setup by just installing >> sage-4.2.1. >> >> > Thanks, but no, I don't really want to install sage-4.2.1. I wou

[sage-devel] graph theory tickets

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Miller
Hello, The splitup of graph.py, the switch to c_graphs as default, and the resulting awesomeness are impending! I have just gone through all the graph theory tickets needing review this morning. There is one left which I don't feel qualified to review, namely the interactive graph editor #1321. C

[sage-devel] input: and output: in docstrings

2009-12-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, It has been brought to my attention that many docstrings in Sage do not explicitly and clearly list their input and output in INPUT: and OUTPUT: blocks. There are only 2711 OUTPUT blocks and 4371 INPUT blocks in sage-4.3: wst...@sage:~/build/sage-4.3.rc0$ ./sage -grep "output:" |wc -l

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [cython-users] Scipy09 Proceedings

2009-12-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Florent, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Florent Hivert wrote: > I don't know who's in charge but you can also add You could email sage-devel or the website maintainers [1]. > http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2212 > submitted in an extended abstract form to the conference FPSAC'2010. Full >

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [cython-users] Scipy09 Proceedings

2009-12-15 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:05:49AM +1100, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > The SciPy 2009 proceedings [1] contain four papers that cite Sage. These are: > [2] http://www.sagemath.org/library-publications.html http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2212 I don't know who's in charge

Re: [sage-devel] Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:44:50PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I've noticed on several occasions people reporting issues when Sage includes > a > library which the system has. This causes conflicts with the linker, and can > result in messages which sometimes include: > >

[sage-devel] Fwd: [cython-users] Scipy09 Proceedings

2009-12-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, The SciPy 2009 proceedings [1] contain four papers that cite Sage. These are: (1) Stefan Behnel, Robert W. Bradshaw, and Dag Sverre Seljebotn. Cython Tutorial. In Gaël Varoquaux, Stéfan van der Walt, and K. Jarrod Millman (ed.). SciPy 2009: Proceedings of the 8th Python in Science Confe

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Raymond Toy wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This email is a followup about  "1. maxima opens the root directory / >> and stats each file found there. Then it does the same thing for the >> /u (home) directory..." >> > This is not right.  Maxima should no

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Dec 15, 4:34 am, mhampton wrote: >> Thanks for pointing that out. I was looking for "svd", lower-case, >> and missed it. > > actually, me too. Is there a reason why it is uppercase? I'm for > renaming it to lowercase and adding an uppercase synonym for backwards > comp

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 15, 4:34 am, mhampton wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out.  I was looking for "svd", lower-case, > and missed it. actually, me too. Is there a reason why it is uppercase? I'm for renaming it to lowercase and adding an uppercase synonym for backwards compatibility. h -- To post to this

[sage-devel] Linking libraries - do we need a completely different approach ?

2009-12-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've noticed on several occasions people reporting issues when Sage includes a library which the system has. This causes conflicts with the linker, and can result in messages which sometimes include: "(possible multiple inclusion of the same file)" Readline is one such example, but is by no mea

[sage-devel] Re: MathJax: the next version of jsmath

2009-12-15 Thread kcrisman
On Dec 15, 2:47 am, Jason Grout wrote: > If you want to see a preview of the MathJax, next version of jsmath, > which Davide has been working on for a while, go to: > > http://www.mathjax.com/?page_id=13 > > They (the consortium of people that are sponsoring the development) are > still working

Re: [sage-devel] Please check if this computes seconds since Epoch

2009-12-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John Cremona wrote: >> I must admit I'm puzzled it needed the .sh on the end. Are you sure you had >> the >> execute permission on the version without the .sh ? > > Yes, definitely. (If not, even ./unixtime.sh would have failed.) Fair enough. I don't know much about dash, but I know if you pro

[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

2009-12-15 Thread William Stein
Hi, This email is a followup about "1. maxima opens the root directory / and stats each file found there. Then it does the same thing for the /u (home) directory..." Thanks to everybody that responded to my query below. The "MAXIMA-SHAREDIR" variable looks fine according to the output of "maxim