[sage-devel] Re: Matplotlib uses Wrong Version of freetype when macports is installed

2011-12-08 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi felix, thanks for your report! > You may argue, that macports > shouldn't override anything in the first place, but I think Sage > should be robust against this problem. You're perfectly right, we know that, and there's work in progress by several developers on it. The "correct" solution wou

Re: [sage-devel] Symmetric polynomial in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials

2011-12-08 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, 9 December 2011 04:25:23 UTC+8, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2011-12-08 20:16, Mike Hansen wrote: > > e[3,2,1] represents the product e[3]*e[2]*[1]: > As far as I can tell, this is nowhere mentioned in the documentation. > well, this is standard in the symmetric functions business. e_

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Dima Pasechnik
well, can't we just use the system's readline instead? I cannot imagine a recent Linux distribution for which such readline doesn't work with Sage. -- 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...@goog

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Volker Braun
I think I'll be able to say more if you show me the install.log ;-) -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Simon King
Hi Volker, On 8 Dez., 15:31, Volker Braun wrote: > Well for once its not Suse's fault but our own for abusing LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That may be to blame for the error that I find for sage-4.8.alpha3 (namely maxima not starting because it can't find mgnuplot). But can the problem with sage-4.7.2 real

Re: [sage-devel] Symmetric polynomial in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials

2011-12-08 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-12-08 20:16, Mike Hansen wrote: > e[3,2,1] represents the product e[3]*e[2]*[1]: As far as I can tell, this is nowhere mentioned in the documentation. Certainly not in the obvious places. > sage: e[3]*e[2]*e[1] > e[3, 2, 1] It would be nice to be able to expand e[3,2,1] into a polynomial e

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Conjugacy classes code

2011-12-08 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:26 AM, javier wrote: > They were listed on the comments. I have upgraded the ticket > description to make it clearer. Sorry, I missed that. I have tested it on a mac and have seen no problems. I'll test it out on a linux machine now. > > Cheers, > Javier > > -- > To

Re: [sage-devel] Symmetric polynomial in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Hansen
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-12-04 14:34, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:56:39AM -0800, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>>    unless I missed something, >>>    your >>> http://combinat.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/demo-symmetric-functions.

Re: [sage-devel] Symmetric polynomial in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials

2011-12-08 Thread Florent Hivert
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:56:11PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-12-04 14:34, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:56:39AM -0800, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >>unless I missed something, > >>your > >> http://combinat.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/demo-symmetri

Re: [sage-devel] Symmetric polynomial in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials

2011-12-08 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-12-04 14:34, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:56:39AM -0800, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>unless I missed something, >>your >> http://combinat.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/demo-symmetric-functions.html >>lacks any information as to how to take any symmetr

[sage-devel] Matplotlib uses Wrong Version of freetype when macports is installed

2011-12-08 Thread felix
Hi, after I installed macports yesterday, matplotlib couldn't save eps or ps files using savefig anymore. The problem is, that the wrong version of freetype is identified. There is a a ticket for a similar bug which has been closed recently: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9202. I am usi

[sage-devel] Re: updating cell output

2011-12-08 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/7/11 11:50 PM, Tamas Hubai wrote: Hi Jason, Jason Grout wrote: A quick look at the notebook sources revealed that check_for_cell_update() is repeatedly polling for the contents of the cell output and that set_output_text() can be used to change it. But I would need the current cell object

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Simon King
Hi Volker, On 8 Dez., 15:31, Volker Braun wrote: > Well for once its not Suse's fault but our own for abusing LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > But having said that, if you want to install linux specifically for the > purpose of running Sage then I would recommend Ubuntu or Fedora I was explicitly deciding aga

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Volker Braun
Well for once its not Suse's fault but our own for abusing LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But having said that, if you want to install linux specifically for the purpose of running Sage then I would recommend Ubuntu or Fedora (depending on whether your are less or more technically inclined). They just get mor

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Simon King
Hi Volker, On 8 Dez., 15:02, Volker Braun wrote: > No, its not a plug-in solution. After we adapt the compilerwrapper we need > to remove the workarounds from the readline spkg, for example. That sounds like my choice of a Linux distribution was a severe mistake. I was much looking forward to fi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Volker Braun
No, its not a plug-in solution. After we adapt the compilerwrapper we need to remove the workarounds from the readline spkg, for example. -- 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.c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Simon King
Hi Volker, On 8 Dez., 14:06, Volker Braun wrote: > Really, this is why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is considered a bad solution for > forcing libraries that doesn't scale to big projects. This is not a new > conclusion, many others have been burned there before. The known solution > to this is to use rpaths.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Volker Braun
The general problem with libreadline is that a lot of programs outside of Sage use it. So many distributions break if we just LD_LIBRARY_PATH a different version of libreadline, suddenly your shell doesn't work any more etc. There are then hacks for Suse and Arch linux in the readline spkg to p

[sage-devel] [installed/lapack-20071123.p2] Error 1

2011-12-08 Thread Lucia AvOlocc
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 11.10 version. I want to upgrade sage 4.6.2 to 4.7.2. This is a part of the intall.log, There was an error when installing lapack: Host system uname -a: Linux takenoko 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:27:26 UTC

[sage-devel] Re: Conjugacy classes code

2011-12-08 Thread javier
They were listed on the comments. I have upgraded the ticket description to make it clearer. Cheers, Javier -- 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 thi

[sage-devel] Sage on openSUSE 12.1

2011-12-08 Thread Simon King
Hi! I recently got a laptop, and I have a linux partition on it, namely openSUSE 12.1. So far, I have trouble building Sage. sage-4.8.alpha3 did build, but maxima would not start, because it can not find mgnuplot > ./sage -maxima /home/simon/SAGE/sage-4.8.alpha3/local/bin/maxima: lisp="mgnuplot

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Conjugacy classes code

2011-12-08 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:52 AM, javier wrote: > Hi David, > > On Dec 7, 10:39 pm, David Joyner wrote: >> The following tests fail with sage-4.8.a3 on a 10.6.8 mac: >> >> jeeves:sage-4.8.alpha3 wdj$ ./sage -t  -force_lib >> "devel/sage/sage/groups/group.pyx" >> sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/

[sage-devel] Re: Conjugacy classes code

2011-12-08 Thread javier
Hi David, On Dec 7, 10:39 pm, David Joyner wrote: > The following tests fail with sage-4.8.a3 on a 10.6.8 mac: > > jeeves:sage-4.8.alpha3 wdj$ ./sage -t  -force_lib > "devel/sage/sage/groups/group.pyx" > sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/groups/group.pyx" I am really confused here, since my pa