[sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-07 Thread Keshav Kini
"Georg S. Weber" writes: > Yes, > I can see your point, thanks for clarifying it! > > My bad, my mind was still set to the "old" mode that any patches > simply have to be based against some (preferably the latest) > *official* Sage release. (With the obvious exception of a series of > patches wit

Re: [sage-devel] Re: tachyon -- are we building it incorrectly or?

2012-03-07 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Benjamin Jones wrote: > I can verify that tachyon renders using multiple threads on linux. In > fact it looks like it uses all available threads by default (!). > Rendering the 1000 random platonic solids from William's 3d plot > worksheet took 1.07 seconds using 10

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Volker Braun
Sorry, too quick ;-) What I wanted to say is: I would also be available for these two projects. -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:49:10 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > * Finish creating and deploying a C library interface to GAP: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6391 > > * Make it so Python cache's module import locations on startup, thus > greatly improving startup time for large Pyt

Re: [sage-devel] Sage a l'agrégation de mathématiques; appel à volontaire pour les JIL et les RMLL

2012-03-07 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 07 mars, Nicolas M. Thiery a écrit: > Bonne nouvelle: Sage fait maintenant partie des logiciels officiels > pour le concours de l'agrégation de mathématiques: > > http://agreg.org/Agreg/installation.html#applicatifs C'est une excellente nouvelle. Snark on #sagemath -- To post

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:35 AM, David Roe wrote: > If we get GSOC funding I could supervise various projects, depending on > interest (though probably only one of these): For me, here's what I could supervise. These are all projects I hope to do something about in the next 6 months, and I could

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread David Roe
If we get GSOC funding I could supervise various projects, depending on interest (though probably only one of these): * sparse matrices: Sage currently uses generic sparse matrices for almost every base ring. * cleaning up coercion: many parts of Sage still use the old coercion system. It would be

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Lukáš Lánský
2012/3/7 Harald Schilly > PS: … and regardless of GSOC or not, you can bring up your ideas here > on this mailing list and start to exchange with others if it is a good > idea to do this or if someone else has similar ideas, too. > I certainly will. :-) -- To post to this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Sage a l'agrégation de mathématiques; appel à volontaire pour les JIL et les RMLL

2012-03-07 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Chers utilisateurs et développeurs de Sage en France, Bonne nouvelle: Sage fait maintenant partie des logiciels officiels pour le concours de l'agrégation de mathématiques: http://agreg.org/Agreg/installation.html#applicatifs Je profite de cette occasion pour retransmettre deux a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Releasing more often?

2012-03-07 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 07 mars, P Purkayastha a écrit: > Development releases are here: > > http://sagemath.org/download-latest.html > > You will need to compile them. Usually the compilation can be as > simple as 1. unpack the archive, for instance "tar -xf .tar" > 2. cd ./ > 3. make > > 4. ./sage # to r

[sage-devel] Re: OSX10.7 (Lion)'s blas is REALLY BUGGY: Fwd: cvxopt on MacOSX 10.7

2012-03-07 Thread Dima Pasechnik
In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: > On 3/6/12 4:30 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> OK, guys, bad news, we will have to build Altlas on Lion! >> Or wait for Apple to fix their blas... >> I checked the attached C code on sqrt5, both with gcc and with cc (i.e. >> clang), and it's all >> co

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Releasing more often?

2012-03-07 Thread P Purkayastha
Development releases are here: http://sagemath.org/download-latest.html You will need to compile them. Usually the compilation can be as simple as 1. unpack the archive, for instance "tar -xf .tar" 2. cd ./ 3. make 4. ./sage # to run sage On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:38:38 PM UTC+8, Rita Mor

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Harald Schilly
2012/3/7 Lukáš Lánský : > I cannot assure there would be anyone willing to mentor them. Well, then let's wait and see if Sage gets selected :-) Apart from those proposals, students can propose their own project ideas. So, if it really happens that Sage is selected, it's perfectly fine if you write

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Lukáš Lánský
2012/3/7 Harald Schilly > > I'm writing the application, i.e. a bit of a rewrite of the one from > the last year. What's missing are some new (or rewritten) project > proposals. Very few feedback so far ... I am going to participate as a student if the proposal pass through and I have some ideas

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Harald Schilly
2012/3/7 Lukáš Lánský : > Application deadline is in two days. What is left to do? I'm writing the application, i.e. a bit of a rewrite of the one from the last year. What's missing are some new (or rewritten) project proposals. Very few feedback so far ... H -- To post to this group, send an e

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC2012 Project Proposals

2012-03-07 Thread Lukáš Lánský
Application deadline is in two days. What is left to do? 2012/3/5 Daniel Krenn > What is the status at the moment? -- 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: Releasing more often?

2012-03-07 Thread Rita
since testing is a bottleneck where can I download Sage 5.0 (alpha)? Is there a Linux 64bit binary available? I wouldn't mind testing. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Jonathan Bober wrote: > I think I remembered the problems wrong. I think maybe it isn't an issue > with the version of Virtu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Releasing more often?

2012-03-07 Thread Jonathan Bober
I think I remembered the problems wrong. I think maybe it isn't an issue with the version of VirtualBox, but an issue with the kernel that mod.math is running. Performance with multiple cores seems to be much worse than single core performance. An example I just tried: with a single core in the VM

[sage-devel] Keep dist/sage-rsync directory in sage-rsyncdist (#12618) needs review

2012-03-07 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
The scripts sage-sdist and sage-bdist create a directory within $SAGE_ROOT/dist and then pack that directory in a tarball. The result is that dist contains both the original directory as well as the tarball. Currently, sage-rsyncdist removes this directory. Change the behaviour such that it keeps t

[sage-devel] Re: Can't build sqlite during making of Sage

2012-03-07 Thread daniel.kho
Hi Dave, Thanks. It's the one that comes with SFE (http://wiki.openindiana.org/ oi/Spec+Files+Extra+Repository). Probably this is the Sun one. I followed some forum to cd directly into the sqlite directories (after unpacking of course) and it could pass "make". But it failed make when I build sage