[sage-devel] Bug with symbolic functions

2018-11-14 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Hi, I've just been hit by a quite annoying bug, a minimal example of which is sage: r, b = var('r b', domain='real') sage: s = function('a', latex_name=r'\alpha')(r) sage: latex(s) \alpha\left(r\right) sage: latex(s.simplify()) a\left(r\right) sage: s - s.simplify() a(r) - a(r) sage:

[sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread Samuel Lelievre
Tue 2018-11-13 17:31:47 UTC+1, James Womack: > I am right to think that installing packages in this way requires > that I have compiled Sage Math from source? In that case, > I may need to switch from the binary version in the Ubuntu > repositories back to compiling from source. If I understand

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread TB
On 14/11/2018 11:53, James Womack wrote: Thanks. I actually decided to go ahead and build from source. It's a good excuse to get the latest stable version and avoids permissions issues when adding optional components --- I can install in a directory owned by a normal user. Perhaps in future,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread James Womack
Thanks. I actually decided to go ahead and build from source. It's a good excuse to get the latest stable version and avoids permissions issues when adding optional components --- I can install in a directory owned by a normal user. Perhaps in future, optional packages could be made available