[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Grout
On 1/9/12 11:42 PM, William Stein wrote: +1 It's what I would use if I had to use Windows. You do it even on a mac! Jason -- 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 mor

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2012 11:13:27 PM UTC-5, William wrote: >> >> 2) One can use much more RAM with 64-bit.  Many computers these days >> have 8GB RAM (e.g., even my laptop). > > Or 16GB in my laptop ;-)  Though its really only sensible to use

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 9, 2012 11:13:27 PM UTC-5, William wrote: > > 2) One can use much more RAM with 64-bit. Many computers these days > have 8GB RAM (e.g., even my laptop). > Or 16GB in my laptop ;-) Though its really only sensible to use ~50% for the VM, which brings us back to the 4GB limit on

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 9, 2012 11:14:56 PM UTC-5, William wrote: > > > You can configure port forwarding with VirtualBox. If you forward port > > 8000 of the host system to port 8000 of the guest system, you get that > > result. > > Thanks for the explanation; that's very cool. I assume this is what >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, mmarco wrote: > >> By the way, how canhttp://localhost:8000ever work?   If I'm using >> VirtualBox and I go tohttp://localhost:8000in Internet Explorer, I'm >> definitely *not* going to get something having anything to do with the >> virtual machine. >> > > > You ca

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2012 4:07:49 PM UTC-5, William wrote: >> >> Let's focus our energy on doing this. > > Agreed! > >> Let's also plan to fully >> support having both a 32 and 64-bit version.  Right now I think we >> only provide a 32-bit VM.

Re: [sage-devel] Sage pay electric for build slaves

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I'm not sure if this idea will go down well, but I'll mute it anyway. > > I know William has switched off machines (t2.math for example), as he does > not have the power/cooling for them. That seems a real shame for that > machine to sit an

[sage-devel] Sage pay electric for build slaves

2012-01-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm not sure if this idea will go down well, but I'll mute it anyway. I know William has switched off machines (t2.math for example), as he does not have the power/cooling for them. That seems a real shame for that machine to sit and collect dust, when it could be used. Apart from "hawk", I h

[sage-devel] Do we want a CentOS build slave

2012-01-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I might be able to run a CentOS build slave. It will probably be 5.6 (not the latest), though I'm not sure yet. I could make this a slave for the buildbot, assuming it does not use too much power, which I've not measured yet. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read t

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Keshav Kini
> Which reminds to check whether I still remember my Sage Wiki login and > password ... I'll just jump in to say that a little while ago we connected the Sage Wiki logins to the trac user store, so you should log into the Sage Wiki using your trac user/pass. Though your email was five hours ago

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 9, 8:45 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > On 1/9/12 8:36 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > As a very naive question, how would this change the way campuses set > > up their Sage notebook servers?   If anything changes there in terms > > of security, it would need to be really well documented on the setup

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Grout
On 1/9/12 8:36 PM, kcrisman wrote: As a very naive question, how would this change the way campuses set up their Sage notebook servers? If anything changes there in terms of security, it would need to be really well documented on the setup pages. Changes would be: 1. install openssl developm

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread kcrisman
As a very naive question, how would this change the way campuses set up their Sage notebook servers? If anything changes there in terms of security, it would need to be really well documented on the setup pages. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Florent Hivert
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:56:15PM -0800, mmarco wrote: > I don't think the case of users who would use the secure=True option > but are not that sophisticated is as unusual as William assumes. I > know several examples (and i am one of them). I would agree with the > elimination of this option IF

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread IanSR
My vote: [X] Yes, remove them! Somewhat coincidentally, Jason and I were looking at this today. The express summary is that Jason and I have put together a patch today that solves the FlaskNB+HTTPS problem (caused by an attempt to use TLS with the latest Twisted 2), and to do so it rips out G

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread mmarco
I don't think the case of users who would use the secure=True option but are not that sophisticated is as unusual as William assumes. I know several examples (and i am one of them). I would agree with the elimination of this option IF the way to recompile it with openssl support is adequately docum

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 09/01/2012 22:26, Julien Puydt a écrit : The browser could be _in_ the VM ; that would make it easy to ensure that both http://localhost:8000 and jsmath work. ... and no firewall & AV problems either ;-) Snark on #sagemath -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread mmarco
Is there another port that is usually not firewalled that could be used? On 9 ene, 22:28, Volker Braun wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2012 4:19:36 PM UTC-5, mmarco wrote: > > > You can configure port forwarding with VirtualBox. If you forward port > > 8000 of the host system to port 8000 of the g

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 9, 2012 4:19:36 PM UTC-5, mmarco wrote: > > You can configure port forwarding with VirtualBox. If you forward port > 8000 of the host system to port 8000 of the guest system, you get that > result. Thats what my virtual machine does, but let's face it: Networking is pretty m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 09/01/2012 22:09, William Stein a écrit : By the way, how can http://localhost:8000 ever work? If I'm using VirtualBox and I go to http://localhost:8000 in Internet Explorer, I'm definitely *not* going to get something having anything to do with the virtual machine. The browser could be _i

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread mmarco
> By the way, how canhttp://localhost:8000ever work? If I'm using > VirtualBox and I go tohttp://localhost:8000in Internet Explorer, I'm > definitely *not* going to get something having anything to do with the > virtual machine. > You can configure port forwarding with VirtualBox. If you forwa

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 9, 2012 4:07:49 PM UTC-5, William wrote: > > Let's focus our energy on doing this. > Agreed! Let's also plan to fully > support having both a 32 and 64-bit version. Right now I think we > only provide a 32-bit VM. If we are organized, we can do both 32 and > 64-bit. > I don

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:25 PM, mmarco wrote: > So, summarizing, a (let's say) VirtualBox VM, that boots directly into > simple X environment with sage running on the background+firefox open > pointing at it would be a good solution? > > That seems feasible. The bigest problem i see is the mouse

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: >> >> > but its less error prone imho. >> >> This is probably true.  VirtualBox is massively more widely used. >> When we used to distribute a coLinux version of Sage (in 2006), I >> remember watching many Windows laptops crash hard due to the

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Georg S. Weber
> > > but its less error prone imho. > > This is probably true.  VirtualBox is massively more widely used. > When we used to distribute a coLinux version of Sage (in 2006), I > remember watching many Windows laptops crash hard due to their > low-level driver.   But that was 5 years ago, and things

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
Its true that I haven't spent much time with coLinux, I just read in the FAQ that one can't run an X server natively. http://www.andlinux.org runs Xming (a Windows X server) that coLinux connects to through the network. So you need to configure your firewall to allow tcp port 6000. In fact, the

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread mmarco
Then its even better that i thought. I always tried VirtualBox without the extensions, so the mouse integration is a problem. On 9 ene, 21:30, Volker Braun wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2012 3:25:54 PM UTC-5, mmarco wrote: > > > That seems feasible. The bigest problem i see is the mouse > > inte

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 9, 2012 3:25:54 PM UTC-5, mmarco wrote: > > That seems feasible. The bigest problem i see is the mouse > integration. > Whats the problem with mouse integration? We just have to make sure that the guest extensions are loaded in VirtualBox, then you can move the mouse pointer

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread mmarco
So, summarizing, a (let's say) VirtualBox VM, that boots directly into simple X environment with sage running on the background+firefox open pointing at it would be a good solution? That seems feasible. The bigest problem i see is the mouse integration. What about a VM with no X that just boots,

[sage-devel] Unofficial release sage-5.0.prealpha1

2012-01-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
I have made an unofficial sage-5.0.prealpha1 release. It's an updated version of the previous prealpha0. The only main change is the inclusion of the new matplotlib spkg (#11915). Source archive: http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-5.0.prealpha1/sage-5.0.prealpha1.tar Upgrade p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/09/12 15:00, Nils Bruin wrote: > > Via the absolutely zero-configuration one-time certificate opening of > the notebook, I agree. However, on a machine with multi-account login > (nearly any unix/linux/mac workstation in a department network), even > listening on localhost provides a larger

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Nils Bruin
On Jan 9, 8:39 am, William Stein wrote: > When I originally pushed to have secure=True easily available by > default in Sage for all users, I > (1) didn't understand that secure=False is safe on localhost, Via the absolutely zero-configuration one-time certificate opening of the notebook, I agree

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
[X] Yes, remove them! If this is possible, that would be a very good idea. Where's the ticket, such that I can give it positive_review :-) -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > I had looked at coLinux before settling on VirtualBox. Since coLinux > also needs a low-level driver I don't see any compelling advantage for > our use. It is harder to install than VirtualBox and I have the impression that you didn't seriou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:41 AM, kcrisman wrote: >> Yes, I think it's a good idea to stop spending time etc on Cygwin port. >> It is a huge PITA to use it in its present state (having spent quite a bit >> of time on it last year) , > > True, though it's frustrating to have to count that all as a s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
> coLinux looks promising. What does stop one from putting Sage on it > presently? > > Dima Nothing. I've done it before several times. I was hoping with my email to encourage you (meaning anybody reading this!) to try it. What stops me right now is that I don't have Windows installed anywhere

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
I had looked at coLinux before settling on VirtualBox. Since coLinux also needs a low-level driver I don't see any compelling advantage for our use. It is harder to install than VirtualBox and you can't run X on top of it right now. VirtualBox will be slightly slower in the execution, but its less

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 9, 1:18 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 January 2012 01:11:37 UTC+8, William wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > > > Hi Wiliam, > > > > Karl-Dieter told me that you found some problem with the virtual > > > machine but he didn't recall any detail

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tuesday, 10 January 2012 01:11:37 UTC+8, William wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > > Hi Wiliam, > > > > Karl-Dieter told me that you found some problem with the virtual > > machine but he didn't recall any details. What exactly is the issue? > > Volker, > > My p

[sage-devel] Re: Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tuesday, 10 January 2012 00:39:30 UTC+8, William wrote: > > Hi Sage-Devel, > > PROPOSAL: I propose that we remove python_gnutls, gnutls, opencdk, > libgcrypt, and > libgpg_error from Sage-5.0. See below for details. > > VOTE: > > [X ] Yes, remove them! > [ ] No, we need them. > [ ] Woops --

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
[X] Yes, remove them! On 01/09/12 11:39, William Stein wrote: > ... For people setting up a > server who will user secure=True, they *should* get a properly signed > certificate, so they are likely very sophisticated users willing to do > some extra work (incidentally, I have never once in the h

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread John Cremona
Question: Whenever I rebuild Sage I find I have to install openssh and the rebuild python, since otherwise mercurial does not work when pull/pushing to a remote place. (I tihnk that this is stil the case when on a machine with its own mercurial, not using Sage's mercurial, though I cannot see how

[sage-devel] Re: VirtualBox

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > Hi Wiliam, > > Karl-Dieter told me that you found some problem with the virtual > machine but he didn't recall any details. What exactly is the issue? Volker, My perspective changed a lot because I spent so much time during the last week tryi

Re: [sage-devel] Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 09/01/2012 17:39, William Stein a écrit : Hi Sage-Devel, PROPOSAL: I propose that we remove python_gnutls, gnutls, opencdk, libgcrypt, and libgpg_error from Sage-5.0. See below for details. Removing the above 5 packages will save space, make Sage build more quickly and easily, and make

[sage-devel] Proposal: Remove GNUTLS from Sage.

2012-01-09 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, PROPOSAL: I propose that we remove python_gnutls, gnutls, opencdk, libgcrypt, and libgpg_error from Sage-5.0. See below for details. VOTE: [ ] Yes, remove them! [ ] No, we need them. [ ] Woops -- you are confused and didn't realize that . DETAILS: The Sage no

[sage-devel] Re: Patch for numerical noise in stats/hmm/chmm.pyx (#12283) needs review

2012-01-09 Thread mhampton
OK, I checked it out and have given it a positive review (see comments on the ticket). -Marshall On Jan 9, 9:05 am, Keshav Kini wrote: > A link to the trac ticket page (the above links to the raw patch file): > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12283 > > -Keshav > > > Join us in #

[sage-devel] Re: Patch for numerical noise in stats/hmm/chmm.pyx (#12283) needs review

2012-01-09 Thread Keshav Kini
A link to the trac ticket page (the above links to the raw patch file): http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12283 -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email t

[sage-devel] Sage-Combinat Days at Cernay

2012-01-09 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear Sage-Combinat lovers, This is the second announcement for the Third Sage-Combinat days in Cernay They will hold at Cernay-la-Ville, France, February 6-10 2012. At the lodging house: The Tower. See http://www.cernayvacances.com/CEngels.html (the tower) It is very nice an

[sage-devel] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 testers needed

2012-01-09 Thread RegB
PS to earlier post; My build was with the p2 version of the readline package. FWIW, but I still have the same failure with; "make ptestlong" I tried again after a; "make clean", but got the same failure. Will play around with it later, but I think readline.p2 is OK on my Ubuntu 11.10 and on my Kub

Re: [sage-devel] Ubuntu 11.10 testers needed

2012-01-09 Thread John Cremona
On 9 January 2012 13:25, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2012-01-07 12:39, John Cremona wrote: >> (24 hours later) >> >> Successfully built 4.8.alpha6 with >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/palmieri/SPKG/readline-6.2.p3.spkg >> put into spkg/standard before starting to build.  All long tests pass

Re: [sage-devel] Ubuntu 11.10 testers needed

2012-01-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-07 12:39, John Cremona wrote: > (24 hours later) > > Successfully built 4.8.alpha6 with > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/palmieri/SPKG/readline-6.2.p3.spkg > put into spkg/standard before starting to build. All long tests pass > and there is no warning about readline, and history

[sage-devel] New termcap spkg (#12282) needs review

2012-01-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Please review *blocker* ticket #12282. It fixes a segmentation fault in the termcap library, triggered by the new readline spkg at #11970. The problem was that strcmp() was called with a NULL argument. The fix is easy: check whether the argument is NULL. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/t

[sage-devel] Patch for numerical noise in stats/hmm/chmm.pyx (#12283) needs review

2012-01-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Please review *blocker* ticket #12283. It is a trivial patch for numerical noise. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/12283/12283_chmm_noise.patch Thanks, Jeroen. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen