Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Schilling
Mathematically speaking, do we really want to accept: HighestWeightCrystal(dominant_weights = (...))? That is, do we want to consider a disconnected crystal as a highest weight crystal, if all its connected components are highest weight? I am not so sure. Notes: - This feature is not

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Anne Schilling wrote: Should direct_sum_of_crystals be a method similar to TensorProductOfCrystals? Then the input would be a list of crystals (B_1,...,B_n) whose direct sum one takes. I suppose the elements would then be stored as tuple

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Sage Days 20.5!

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Schilling
Hi Franco, I will most likely come (and Jason Bandlow as well as I learned this morning). Thank you for organizing! Anne Franco Saliola wrote: Hello everyone, Great news! The Fields Institute (Toronto, Canda) has agreed to host a Sage Days event! The event will take place May 3-7, 2010. So

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Schilling
Should direct_sum_of_crystals be a method similar to TensorProductOfCrystals? Then the input would be a list of crystals (B_1,...,B_n) whose direct sum one takes. I suppose the elements would then be stored as tuple tuple(b,i) where b \in B_i. Yes. And you can inherit from

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 02:27:50PM -0800, Anne Schilling wrote: Should direct_sum_of_crystals be a method similar to TensorProductOfCrystals? Then the input would be a list of crystals (B_1,...,B_n) whose direct sum one takes. I suppose the elements would then be stored as tuple

[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread bump
On Jan 29, 4:29 pm, Anne Schilling a...@math.ucdavis.edu wrote: Dear Dan, Were you able to look at #7978? It is ready for review. I checked that the patch trac_7978_crystal_cleanup-as.2.patch passes sage --testall. I am not finished looking at the patch. I have one comment, which is not

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Schilling
Dear Dan, I checked that the patch trac_7978_crystal_cleanup-as.2.patch passes sage --testall. I am not finished looking at the patch. I have one comment, which is not really about the patch, but about affine.py. This is that I think promotion should be explained a bit more. I think there

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Crystal cleanup

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Schilling
Hi Niolcas, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Anne Schilling wrote: Should direct_sum_of_crystals be a method similar to TensorProductOfCrystals? Then the input would be a list of crystals (B_1,...,B_n) whose direct sum one takes. I suppose the elements would then be stored as tuple

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Starting to build Sage, then finding the python builds, but finds to find the hashlib module is a bit irritating. There is is a specific test for this in spkg-install.

[sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. Basically, two people have found 1) Install Sage with older gcc. 2) Install the latest gcc 4.4.3 3) Try to update

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. I mean update Sage with the same version of gcc - not update gcc with the same version!

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a build, then the build fail due to lack of OpenSSL. I do not believe this issue

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: 3) Change Sage so that the hashlib module of python is not essential for a functioning Sage. That is I suspect the easiest option. I don't claim to understand how Sage builds fully, but I would have thought crypto support was not a requirement. What I mean is, that a

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a build, then the build fail

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. Basically, two people

[sage-devel] Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms is very out of date. This is no criticism o the web master - I know only too well it is next to impossible to keep a web site up to date. Here are the points. 1) Solaris 9 on Sparc 32 bit (ongoing, getting close, mabshoff is working on this)

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Web Service / UI

2010-01-31 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:21 AM, David Joyner wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Ivan Andrus darthand...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: ... http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/fluidium_app-0.1.spkg This doesn't work either (imac, 10.6.2). Hmm. It

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alex Ghitza wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. Basically,

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
The only place I know it's used is to serve up secure notebooks, but I bet its used elsewhere too. I see another option IF that is all, then that hardly seems a major loss of functionality. I bet most people don't use the secure notebooks anyway. I can see they have advantages though,

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Martin Albrecht wrote: The only place I know it's used is to serve up secure notebooks, but I bet its used elsewhere too. I see another option IF that is all, then that hardly seems a major loss of functionality. I bet most people don't use the secure notebooks anyway. I can see they have

[sage-devel] Trac problem

2010-01-31 Thread Simon King
Hi! When working on some trac tickets, I found that the preview button does not work. Trac claimed that it was an invalid operation. Afterwards, when returning to the trac ticket, assign to SimonKing was ticked, while it should have been leaving needs_review. Are others experiencing similar

[sage-devel] Re: Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: [snipped] Fair enough. I mis understood this. But I still think we should not let someone upgrade Sage with a version different to what they used to build it. -1 I've a system wide install of sage upgraded 86 times: [r...@paix installed]# ls sage-* sage-1.5.1.2

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: William Stein wrote: Personally, I do not believe it is legal to ship OpenSSL and for Sage to remain GPL, unless you could get the python developers agree to add an clause that permits linking against OpenSSL.

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 at 10:15AM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: 3) Change Sage so that the hashlib module of python is not essential for a functioning Sage. That is I suspect the easiest option. I don't claim to understand how Sage builds fully, but I would have thought crypto support was not a

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave. Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP-UX port. Well, not only will MPIR not be supporting HP-UX, but

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave. Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 I see you suggested Sage

[sage-devel] MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I've made a page of Architectures/Compilers/OSes that MPIR should recognise, along with a *proposed* categorisation according to how much attention the MPIR developers do/should pay to each. I'm posting this to the mpir-devel and sage-devel lists for comment, as this is just as relevant for the

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I've posted a list of arches/compilers/OSes that MPIR currently does/ perhaps should support, in another thread. That should answer the question, I think. On Jan 31, 3:28 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: I

[sage-devel] Re: MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
Hmm, the link could help: http://mpir.org/supported.html It's not on the main MPIR webpage yet, as this is a proposal, which will need approval of the MPIR devels, after a period of discussion. Bill. On Jan 31, 5:17 pm, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: I've made a page of

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
OK, I did some reading and I now see the point of the question. At this point I don't see any problem with Linux on Itanium 2. For example the gcc build farm contains an Itanium 2 (though no longer an Itanium), and gcc itself support Itanium 2, as does the assembler (obviously). Are there any

[sage-devel] possible singular bug?

2010-01-31 Thread John Cremona
The following example sage: p = 17 sage: F = GF(p) sage: P2.X,Y,Z = ProjectiveSpace(F,2) sage: C = Curve(X^2+Y^2-Z^2) sage: len(C.rational_points()) 18 sage: C.rational_points(algorithm='bn') --- RuntimeError

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
Ah! http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/266916-red-hat-pulls-plug-on-itanium-with-rhel-6 That leaves debian, which still supports it officially, unofficial support on Ubuntu and support for ia32 on SUSE. But that leads me to question the future of ia64 itself. I don't personally

Re: [sage-devel] sage-mode and indentation

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:58:28PM +, John Cremona wrote: Some of those might have come from me since I use emacs and I edited some combinat docstrings recently (they were giveing errors when building the docs). Those we just fixed were from someone else :-) I would like to have emacs

Re: [sage-devel] sage-mode and indentation

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:09:24AM -0800, Nick Alexander wrote: Why don't you update the sage-mode wiki ... Upon googling for the wiki, the first hit was: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode Sage Mode is the result of using natural energy along with a ninja's normal

[sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Jaap Spies wrote: Hi c++ experts, My C++ is a little bit rusty, so I'll ask here. Building matplotlib, pynac, scipy and scipysandbox fail in the end with /usr/local/gcc-4.4.2/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.4.2/../../../../include/c++/4.4.2/bits/char_traits.h: In static member function ‘static

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jaap, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: SNIP Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Certainly not. Not on mine. Please help. I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an OpenSolaris machine somewhere I could use to help? -- Regards Minh Van

[sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Andy Somogyi
Hello All Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac. http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg Its 100% native, Cocoa model / view application. On startup, it creates a background process with the sage notebook server, and users can open as many windows as they want to it.

[sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi Jaap, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spiesj.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: SNIP Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Certainly not. Not on mine. Thanks! Please help. I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an OpenSolaris machine somewhere I could

[sage-devel] Re: Unknown control sequence '\texttt'

2010-01-31 Thread lutusp
Then why do you bother posting things that look like requests for help? In the hope that someone will fix the source, rather than offer new patches? It's not as though it hasn't been reported yet, or discussed yet, and several new releases have gone by without resolution. Meanwhile I'll get

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Implementation of conjugacy classes

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Javier, On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:01:07PM -0800, javier wrote: The implementation of the conjugacy classes is now ticket #7886: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7886 I went through your patch, and am definitely +1 on the overall design and user interface! Here are some

Re: [sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Tim Lahey
On 01-31-2010, at 4:29 PM, Andy Somogyi wrote: Hello All Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac. http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg Its 100% native, Cocoa model / view application. On startup, it creates a background process with the sage notebook

[sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be Sage 4.3.0.2.alpha1 since it's based on Sage 4.3.0.1 [2]. This alpha release is based on Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha0 and merged the following tickets:

[sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread chris wuthrich
Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were talking about the coldest winter. I imagined it is going to be a bit difficult to sleep when I could

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Chris, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:57 AM, chris wuthrich christian.wuthr...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Sage has so many useful applications ! No one knows more about this than David Kirkby [1] :-) Sage: creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab,

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 31 January 2010, chris wuthrich wrote: Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were talking about the coldest winter. I imagined it

[sage-devel] Re: Unknown control sequence '\texttt'

2010-01-31 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 31, 1:37 pm, lutusp lut...@gmail.com wrote: Then why do you bother posting things that look like requests for help? In the hope that someone will fix the source, rather than offer new patches? This is contradictory: the way the source gets fixed is that people post patches, and then

[sage-devel] Re: sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread mhampton
Given the climate here in Duluth, I would be happy to host a build farm in my house... -Marshall On Jan 31, 5:23 pm, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: On Sunday 31 January 2010, chris wuthrich wrote: Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. We had a big

[sage-devel] SageIDE/MathPiperIDE: another way to make a desktop app for Sage

2010-01-31 Thread Ted Kosan
Since the topic of desktop-based apps for Sage has come up recently on this list, I thought it might be a good time to point out that a very good way to create a desktop-based GUI for Sage is to use one of the open source Java IDEs as a foundation. This is what I did when I created SageIDE a

[sage-devel] arm compile sage

2010-01-31 Thread Joshua Herman
Just curious how this is going if anyone has given up or its still happening. -- 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

[sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
I believe our problems are solved reguards the OpenSSL / GPL issue. Follow this logic. 1) The GPL is copyright the Free Software Federation. It says that at the top of the GPL license. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt 2) The Free Sofware Federation contain a list of licenses compatible

Re: [sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Roe
Note that the OpenSSL license is in the section of that page outlining licenses incompatible with the GPL. Here's the summary of OpenSSL on that page: The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, one of them being the license of SSLeay. You must follow both. The combination results

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:53, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be Sage 4.3.0.2.alpha1 since it's based on Sage 4.3.0.1 [2]. This alpha

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 03:33, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 31 January 2010 21:53, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be Sage

Re: [sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 03:26, David Roe r...@math.harvard.edu wrote: Note that the OpenSSL license is in the section of that page outlining licenses incompatible with the GPL.  Here's the summary of OpenSSL on that page: The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, one of them being

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 22:57, chris wuthrich christian.wuthr...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were talking about the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 14:27, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave. Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 I see you suggested Sage switch to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:28, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jaap, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: SNIP Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Certainly not. Not on mine. Please help. I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:20, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi c++ experts, My C++ is a little bit rusty, so I'll ask here. Any thoughts? Jaap Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Please help. jaap Certainly not on my ban list - in fact nobody is.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: SNIP You have several options. 1) William has a virtual machine I believe. I vaguely recall a machine called disk.math or something that runs OpenSolaris. 2) You can install it in VirtualBox. That is

Re: [sage-devel] Trac problem

2010-01-31 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On 01/31/2010 04:05 AM, Simon King wrote: When working on some trac tickets, I found that the preview button does not work. Trac claimed that it was an invalid operation. Afterwards, when This *may* have happened during a server-side change, e.g., while configuring a plug-in. returning to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 14:27, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave. Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 The latest release of HP-UX was

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 04:53, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: SNIP You have several options. 1) William has a virtual machine I believe. I vaguely recall a machine called disk.math or something

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
I think I've done a LOT for Sage - I would request you do not purposely break the PA-RISC support in MPIR, when it clearly passes all your self tests on HP-UX. I do not believe thiat is an unreasonable request. I take issue with the claim that you have done a LOT for Sage. Let me be clear:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
By and large, we are a community of mathematicians. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are not contributing to the mathematical aspects of Sage. Until that changes, your goals and my goals are only occasionally aligned. I hate to think that the only people that are valid contributors to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 05:51, Tim Lahey tim.la...@gmail.com wrote: Solaris isn't exactly an unusual architecture. That's what he's done the most at supporting. He certainly has done a LOT at supporting it. I think what he's asking that Bill not purposely break FLINT since it does currently

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 17:21, Bill Hart goodwillh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hmm, the link could help: http://mpir.org/supported.html It's not on the main MPIR webpage yet, as this is a proposal, which will need approval of the MPIR devels, after a period of discussion. Bill. Under:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPIR 1.3.0 released (at last)

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-30 11:51:08 +, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Bill Hart wrote: Cause of what David? MPIR 1.3.0 works absolutely fine on t2 if you set the library paths correctly. I'm not convinced it should be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH like that. It is not with other

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a *product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, but we still have a

[sage-devel] Buildbot

2010-01-31 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Does anyone here have experience configuring and managing a Buildbot system? http://buildbot.net/trac http://djmitche.github.com/buildbot/docs/latest/ To enable continuous, automated builds on several platforms, we could * Set up a meta-repository of the Sage Mercurial repositories and spkgs.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
On 31-Jan-10, at 11:35 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a *product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, or maintaining the web site and we have

[sage-devel] OpenSSL issue *may* be solved on Solaris.

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
After reading http://blogs.sun.com/janp/entry/on_openssl_versions_in_solaris I discovered that Sun do ship Open SSL 0.9.7, complete with any security fixes, with Solaris. Sun obviously have some agreement with the OpenSSL developers, as they will know of security vunrabilites before they are