Re: [sage-devel] broken links on sagemath.org

2010-09-02 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dan, On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > Hello sagemath.org web people, > > I have a link to > > http://www.sagemath.org/why/muntingh-sage-review/muntingh-sage-review/node2.html > > which is broken. I think that broken link came about during the redesign of the library category

[sage-devel] broken links on sagemath.org

2010-09-02 Thread Dan Drake
Hello sagemath.org web people, I have a link to http://www.sagemath.org/why/muntingh-sage-review/muntingh-sage-review/node2.html which is broken. There's a link to the same kind of page from http://wiki.sagemath.org/SAGE_in_the_News which is also broken. Can someone with access to the sagemath.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage -spkg may hang

2010-09-02 Thread Mitesh Patel
On 09/02/2010 03:17 AM, Simon King wrote: > On Sep 2, 12:42 am, Mitesh Patel wrote: >> ... >> If you still have a copy of the "hanging" package directory, could you >> try print-debugging to isolate the problem? Possibilities include the >> system calls to 'tar' and to 'sage -hg diff'. > > I rec

[sage-devel] Re: A Mathematica parser for Sage.

2010-09-02 Thread rjf
On Sep 2, 2:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > On 09/ 2/10 06:10 AM, rjf wrote: > > > > > the mathematica syntax parser that I wrote appears to run inside > > Maxima, so > > you can, if you wish, feed such text to the mma-in-maxima system. > > Sorry to sound green, but I barely know Maxima, and

[sage-devel] Re: consistent style for sagemath.org and sage documentation

2010-09-02 Thread Niles
On Sep 2, 1:59 pm, kcrisman wrote: > Does this discussion belong (also) on sage-marketing, by the way? Indeed; I'm forwarding it now. Dear sage-marketing, Here's the link to the beginning of this thread http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/73e3c4c995577df0 I did try

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Mathematica parser for Sage.

2010-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 2/10 06:10 AM, rjf wrote: the mathematica syntax parser that I wrote appears to run inside Maxima, so you can, if you wish, feed such text to the mma-in-maxima system. Sorry to sound green, but I barely know Maxima, and do not know Lisp at all. I do know Mathematica - though I'm certai

[sage-devel] Re: consistent style for sagemath.org and sage documentation

2010-09-02 Thread Niles
Hello all, A ticket for this now exists at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9850 and it contains the patch with a screenshot. On Sep 1, 9:21 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > On 9/1/10 5:17 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > The > > sick green has always been a bit jarring to my eye. Maybe a light > >

[sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-09-02 Thread rjf
Is it pronounced Piss-ige or Pee-Sage? What does the P stand for? I know that dogs, etc. mark locations this way, so maybe that has to do with geometry? see sage-flame for a snarkier comment. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

[sage-devel] Re: consistent style for sagemath.org and sage documentation

2010-09-02 Thread kcrisman
> After a while, I decided to see how hard this might be to change . . . > as you would expect, it was totally trivial (at least for a first > pass).  Here's a screenshot of some very basic changes, using the > colors from sagemath.org: > > http://www.nilesjohnson.net/sage-style-docs.png That's a

[sage-devel] Re: consistent style for sagemath.org and sage documentation

2010-09-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sep 1, 11:33 pm, Niles wrote: > Here's a screenshot of some very basic changes, using the > colors from sagemath.org: > > http://www.nilesjohnson.net/sage-style-docs.png Nice, but some time ago I picked some colors for the website and if I'll ever give it some refreshment, at least the basic l

[sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-09-02 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 2, 5:28 am, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: > > On 9/1/10 10:32 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > >> Tim, > > >> all screwing around aside for a moment. I broadly agree with your > >> sentiments. However, there are also some issues with what you are >

[sage-devel] Re: PhD position "Industrial Algebra" available (aka "The PolyBoRi PhD")

2010-09-02 Thread Alexander Dreyer
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[sage-devel] PhD position "Industrial Algebra" available (aka "The PolyBoRi PhD")

2010-09-02 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hello everybody, I'm looking for a suitable PhD candidate for a position at the Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The topic is "Industrial Algebra" : Hopefully, there's somebody out there with the following skills: * Computer Algebra, in particular Gröbner methods * Experience with at le

[sage-devel] Trac components

2010-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
A few questions I have about trac. 1) There are components of "graph theory" and "group_theory". Is the underscore on "group_theory" supposed to make it less easy to confuse with "graph theory", or is it just a mistake and so the underscore should be removed? 2) Should there be a linear prog

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-09-02 Thread Tim Daly
William Stein wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 9/1/10 10:32 AM, Bill Hart wrote: Tim, all screwing around aside for a moment. I broadly agree with your sentiments. However, there are also some issues with what you are suggesting. And I mean to make these

[sage-devel] New component on trac - "PLEASE CHANGE"

2010-09-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
As you may have noticed, if you create a ticket on trac, the default component is "algebra", as that is the first component in alphabetical order. That means anyone that forgets to set a component properly will get it set to "algebra" and it assigned to AlexGhitza. I've added a component "PLE

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-09-02 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 9/1/10 10:32 AM, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> Tim, >> >> all screwing around aside for a moment. I broadly agree with your >> sentiments. However, there are also some issues with what you are >> suggesting. And I mean to make these observations in

[sage-devel] Re: sage -spkg may hang

2010-09-02 Thread Simon King
Hi Mitesh, On Sep 2, 12:42 am, Mitesh Patel wrote: > ... > If you still have a copy of the "hanging" package directory, could you > try print-debugging to isolate the problem?  Possibilities include the > system calls to 'tar' and to 'sage -hg diff'. I reconstructed the hanging package directory