[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 3, 2:34 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:22 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> > It sounds quite ominous. > > >> I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. > > > Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. > > I would say that it's primarily a sounding board for

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Emil Widmann wrote: > > On Feb 3, 3:22 pm, kcrisman wrote: >> > > It sounds quite ominous. >> >> > I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. >> >> Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. > > > For veteran contributors the opaque (but I'm sure it w

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:22 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> > It sounds quite ominous. >> >> I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. >> > > Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. I would say that it's primarily a sounding board for the BDFL for when executive decisions need to be mad

[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread Emil Widmann
On Feb 3, 3:22 pm, kcrisman wrote: > > > It sounds quite ominous. > > > I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. > > Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. For veteran contributors the opaque (but I'm sure it will improve) policy of access to the steering committee might soun

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread William Stein
We must move this discussion to sage-flame. Sorry, this is a serious waste of bandwidth. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, rjf wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 6:37 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" >> > It sounds quite ominous. >> >> I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. >> > > You could always organize

[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread rjf
On Feb 3, 6:37 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" > > It sounds quite ominous. > > I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. > You could always organize a fork of the project, and do your own favorite things.:) RJF -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscri

[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread Aleksej Saushev
William Stein writes: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Aleksej Saushev wrote: >> Robert Bradshaw writes: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >>> wrote: and those changes get put into Sage, without any discussion of what's actually needed in Sage, and what sh

[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread kcrisman
> > It sounds quite ominous. > > I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. > Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/ 3/11 02:07 PM, kcrisman wrote: I've updated the page:http://www.sagemath.org/jsage/ andhttp://www.sagemath.org/jsage/editors.html Thanks. Wow, this is very different from what JSage used to be, at least in theory. I've no idea how it used to be. It sounds quite ominous. I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: build error for sage 4.6.1 on OS X 10.5.8

2011-02-03 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-02-03 15:02, Volker Braun wrote: > Use "make distclean" to evict every file than doesn't pay rent. The next > "make" will compile everything from scratch. This might be true, but I still agree with Dima that "make clean" should also clean all spkgs. -- To post to this group, send an emai

Re: [sage-devel] Re: build error for sage 4.6.1 on OS X 10.5.8

2011-02-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/ 2/11 04:50 PM, Volker Braun wrote: On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:55:27 PM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: There is never any point in setting SAGE64=no. [...] ONLY if it is set to "yes" will anything different happen. That is usually adding the compiler flag "-m64", though in some cases

[sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 3, 4:29 am, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert Bradshaw > > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > >>> A steering committee might be a good idea, we have JSage which > >>> somewhat fulfills this role. > > >> ??? > > >> You don't mean th

[sage-devel] Re: build error for sage 4.6.1 on OS X 10.5.8

2011-02-03 Thread Volker Braun
Use "make distclean" to evict every file than doesn't pay rent. The next "make" will compile everything from scratch. -- 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,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FAQ suggestion: I'm a programmer, how can I contribute to Sage?

2011-02-03 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> >>> >>> A steering committee might be a good idea, we have JSage which >>> somewhat fulfills this role. >> >> ??? >> >> You don't mean the fantastically outdated >> http://www.sagemath.org