Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 11/11/2013 20:45, Robert Bradshaw a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Volker Braun wrote: >> On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:09:54 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >>> >>> But I think even if I send that log, the bug is rather that Sage should >>> check "git --version" and then don't st

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 11/11/2013 07:22 PM, William Stein wrote: >> check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, > If this (and any other similar) change is made, it needs to be made in > a way that doesn't mess up the binaries we build. The binaries that > are built for generic redistribut

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/15401 (needs review) On Monday, November 11, 2013 1:03:29 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > This has been reported before at > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-git/4JtJ9w-kmTw/tWdXPChx4d4J > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, > That is really a feature request, not a bug. Of course it would be nice. If > you want to work on a configure-style script that queries the system for > build- and runtime dependencies then please do! Interesting! You

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
This has been reported before at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-git/4JtJ9w-kmTw/tWdXPChx4d4J On Monday, November 11, 2013 12:04:40 PM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > It would be nice if you could answer Vincent's question about the > > full build log so it can be fixed. > -- You rece

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> It would be nice if you could answer Vincent's question about the > full build log so it can be fixed. As promised... Oh, interesting, I just looked through it. One can find there something like /bin/sh: 1: curl-config: not found /bin/sh: 4: autoconf: not found /bin/sh: 1: msgfmt: not found b

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hi, I definitely think that aim of Felix is good and needed. For example, it is hard to incorporate python module into Sage distribution (I recently went into troubles with pygtk). I guess that having Sage working with the builtin Python would solve the problem. Could someone confirm ? It is har

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:09:54 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >> >> But I think even if I send that log, the bug is rather that Sage should >> check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, >> no? > > > That is

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 07:09:54PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > But I think even if I send that log, the bug is rather that Sage should > check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, > no? "checking whether is necessary" is one part of the problem. according to some sag

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 11/11/2013 19:31, Volker Braun a écrit : > On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:09:54 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > But I think even if I send that log, the bug is rather that Sage should > check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, > no? > > That is rea

[sage-devel] Sage-Git Status

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
Dear Sage Developers, We have been working hard behind the scenes for a while to drag the Sage source version control into the 21-st century. The current plan is to have the first Sage-on-git release before the end of the year (and its almost Thanksgiving). * You can find the new Sage Developer'

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:39:28PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > Obviously your (and probably others) opinion is that a sage installation > as approached by Felix for Debian cannot easily be lifted to other > non-debian distributions. I haven't actually looked at any code (so I'm > rather uninforme

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:09:54 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > But I think even if I send that log, the bug is rather that Sage should > check "git --version" and then don't start trying to build git at all, > no? > That is really a feature request, not a bug. Of course it would be nic

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >>> My initial question was "What requirement for git does Sage have?" > >> It should have none, you found a bug. It would be nice if you could answer >> Vincent's question about the full build log so it can be fixed. > > OK. I can only dig th

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> My initial question was "What requirement for git does Sage have?" > It should have none, you found a bug. It would be nice if you could answer > Vincent's question about the full build log so it can be fixed. OK. I can only dig that out later. But I think even if I send that log, the bug i

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:00:21 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > My initial question was "What requirement for git does Sage have?" > It should have none, you found a bug. It would be nice if you could answer Vincent's question about the full build log so it can be fixed. -- You rece

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> mean that a sage installation should never install anything that is >> already available in a standard distribution. > Even if that means that the Sage testsuite fails because distribution > packages have a bug that isn't fixed upstream yet? Thats an important > policy question and we never

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, November 11, 2013 9:39:28 AM UTC-8, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Of course, I > mean that a sage installation should never install anything that is > already available in a standard distribution. > Even if that means that the Sage testsuite fails because distribution packages have a bug

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 11/11/2013 06:29 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > Its not a technical problem - I think Felix is technically very competent. > But he didn't listen to our concerns nor did he engage in discussions. He > continues to be focused on Debian whereas Sage has a much larger target. In > the end, a Debian

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, November 11, 2013 7:51:23 AM UTC-8, Snark wrote: > > Can we get the un-sarcastic direct criticism to discuss on technical > merit? > Its not a technical problem - I think Felix is technically very competent. But he didn't listen to our concerns nor did he engage in discussions. He c

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 11/11/2013 16:25, Volker Braun a écrit : > On Monday, November 11, 2013 7:11:20 AM UTC-8, Felix Salfelder wrote: > > > Fixed that for you. > > that's great. would you be so kind and tell me/us where to find it and > how to make use of it? > > FTFY (Often used sarcastically) - no

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, November 11, 2013 7:11:20 AM UTC-8, Felix Salfelder wrote: > > > Fixed that for you. > > that's great. would you be so kind and tell me/us where to find it and > how to make use of it? FTFY (Often used sarcastically) - not to fix an honest mistake, but to sarcastically disagree wi

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:53:37AM -0800, Volker Braun wrote: > On Sunday, November 10, 2013 10:14:30 AM UTC-8, Felix Salfelder wrote: > > > > the idea is to run sage (the distribution) on top of debian. and > > only compile packages that deviate from upstream or the debian > > package. > > > F

Re: [sage-devel] compile sage from github

2013-11-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 10:14:30 AM UTC-8, Felix Salfelder wrote: > > the idea is to run sage (the distribution) on top of debian. and > only compile packages that deviate from upstream or the debian > package. Fixed that for you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[sage-devel] Re: ggplot and L. Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics"

2013-11-11 Thread kcrisman
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:18:43 AM UTC-5, Ursin Solèr wrote: > > Hello all! > > I was just wondering whether it could be a good idea to include ggplot > [1] with SAGE. What do you think about that? Was it already discussed > once? > > [1] https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/ > > * pip inst