[sage-devel] Re: Building Sage 5.9 fails on Mercurial

2013-05-04 Thread leif
Mike S wrote: On Saturday, May 4, 2013 6:23:33 PM UTC-4, leif wrote: What does $ head /home/mike/data/IRREPLACEABLE_PERSONAL_DATA/SharedDesktopAndConfig/Desktop/SourceCodeForManualInstalls/sage-5.9/local/bin/hg give? head /home/mike/data/IRREPLACEABLE_PERSONAL_DATA/SharedDesk

[sage-devel] Re: Building Sage 5.9 fails on Mercurial

2013-05-04 Thread Mike S
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 6:23:33 PM UTC-4, leif wrote: > > > What does > > $ head > /home/mike/data/IRREPLACEABLE_PERSONAL_DATA/SharedDesktopAndConfig/Desktop/SourceCodeForManualInstalls/sage-5.9/local/bin/hg > > > > give? > > > -leif > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > /\ Help Cure H

[sage-devel] Re: Building Sage 5.9 fails on Mercurial

2013-05-04 Thread leif
Mike S wrote: I tried to build Sage 5.9 this morning, and it ended up failing after an hour and a half when it tried to build Mercurial. Mercurial itself techically built, but it "doesn't seem to work properly," so the build process errored out and told me to post a message here. I just used

[sage-devel] Re: Building Sage 5.9 fails on Mercurial

2013-05-04 Thread Mike S
First, techically -> technically.* ;) Second, I want to ask a quick follow-up question: In the meantime, I may want to try using one of the preexisting binary builds, but I'm not sure how exactly they've been packaged. Is this a simple matter of "If it works it works, and if it doesn't it doe

[sage-devel] Building Sage 5.9 fails on Mercurial

2013-05-04 Thread Mike S
I tried to build Sage 5.9 this morning, and it ended up failing after an hour and a half when it tried to build Mercurial. Mercurial itself techically built, but it "doesn't seem to work properly," so the build process errored out and told me to post a message here. I just used the standard "m

[sage-devel] a problem with references in functions with 2 names

2013-05-04 Thread Frédéric Chapoton
Working on ticket #14496 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14496) I have met the following problem: I have defined a function "q_binomial" and an alias for this function : "gaussian_binomial" but the definition of "q_binomial" contains a reference, say to [iota2013] Then the document

[sage-devel] Re: can't escape sage after error in attached file (IPython experts?)

2013-05-04 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: On Saturday, May 4, 2013 1:22:36 AM UTC+1, leif wrote: I don't think I'm the only one occasionally saving files even when they're (currently) not in a functional state, and auto-saving is a feature presumably a couple of people use as well. Your editor sucks. Ap

[sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread Volker Braun
Unless you put the ticket number in the patch file name. Which will be much more helpful when dealing with multiple patches than having it in the commit message. On Saturday, May 4, 2013 7:45:50 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > I wouldn't say it's preferred or recommended, because that way you of > c

[sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: Afaik the documentation is out of date: It is preferred to not include the ticket number. You can, but Jeroen's merger script will strip it out for you and put it in in our format. I wouldn't say it's preferred or recommended, because that way you of course only see the tic

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:05 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Saturday, May 4, 2013 1:18:55 AM UTC-7, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, May 4, 2013 12:05:29 AM UTC+2, John H Palmieri wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, May 3, 2013 2:26:21 PM UTC-7, Sébastien Labbé wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 1:18:55 AM UTC-7, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > On Saturday, May 4, 2013 12:05:29 AM UTC+2, John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 3, 2013 2:26:21 PM UTC-7, Sébastien Labbé wrote: >>> >>> > * 8 had problems with the patch itself, like a bad commit message

[sage-devel] Re: Composition of ring homomorphisms

2013-05-04 Thread Francis Clarke
On Friday, May 3, 2013 7:03:16 AM UTC+1, Thomas Feulner wrote: > > When composing a ``RingHomomorphism`` and an instance of > ``RingHomomorphism_im_gens`` then > the images of the generators are again checked for their validity ... I > would just add ''check=False'' to the call. > I think this

[sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread Volker Braun
Afaik the documentation is out of date: It is preferred to not include the ticket number. You can, but Jeroen's merger script will strip it out for you and put it in in our format. On Friday, May 3, 2013 10:26:21 PM UTC+1, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > > Related to this, what is the status about the

[sage-devel] Re: can't escape sage after error in attached file (IPython experts?)

2013-05-04 Thread Volker Braun
Don't tell me that the use case for attach is to attach parallel long-running computations. Thats insane. You want to attach code that you are actively working on, and that completes evaluation relatively quickly. And you are still charge of triggering the reload, the only difference is that th

[sage-devel] Re: can't escape sage after error in attached file (IPython experts?)

2013-05-04 Thread Volker Braun
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 1:22:36 AM UTC+1, leif wrote: > I don't think I'm the only one occasionally saving files even when > they're (currently) not in a functional state, and auto-saving is a > feature presumably a couple of people use as well. > Your editor sucks. Apparently it can't be tru

[sage-devel] Re: Doctests and due diligence

2013-05-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 12:05:29 AM UTC+2, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 3, 2013 2:26:21 PM UTC-7, Sébastien Labbé wrote: >> >> > * 8 had problems with the patch itself, like a bad commit message or >> a >> > malformed patch file. >> >> What does "bad commit message" means? T