[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days: India?

2009-10-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:48 AM, William Stein wrote: I'll be in India for the ICM, but I've already booked the week before for a pair of satellite conferences in Goa, and I don't think I can stay any later. So I'm interested but very likely not actually available. I'm also likely

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days: India?

2009-10-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:39 AM, Dan Drake wrote: Who here is highly interested in the possibility of attending such a Sage Days? It's quite unlikely I could make it -- I've got other travel, plus not enough funding, etc -- but I definitely think this should happen. In the other

[sage-devel] [ANN] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
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[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days: India?

2009-10-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Thursday 01 October 2009 09:32 PM, William Stein wrote: Any thoughts about the location? If Prabhu is at IITB, I suppose that's an option. I'm guessing IITB with dates like Aug 7-12 or therabouts. OK, let me check if there isn't something else here at the time, but I can only do that on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days: India?

2009-10-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Friday 02 October 2009 02:55 AM, William Stein wrote: Can you please give me a rough estimate of the number of people you expect for this? The biggest issue is getting the guest house booked for local accommodation and it would really help if we have a decent estimate so I can book the

[sage-devel] Re: Graphical Physics Program Suggestions

2009-09-23 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 07:20 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/TVTKIntroduction#visual I've used vpython too, and I thought it was really nice and simple. Prabhu may comment with more information, but in the meantime, it's worth keeping in mind that

[sage-devel] Re: update on femhub windows port

2009-09-22 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:50 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: are all fixed and reported. Then all packages that are also in Sage build in cygwin. After that, VTK has to be fixed, but then it seems to build, only it takes insanely long (an hour or more), so I think I'll skip it for now and

[sage-devel] Re: update on femhub windows port

2009-09-22 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 11:31 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: I think we are very close to actually provide a windows binary of femhub in the next release, I feel it. So I'll be working on this, and finish it this week. That is great! Are you also rolling in the changes I submitted for Mac OS

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi, Ondrej Certik wrote: we spent about 6 hours with Prabhu trying to install VTK in Sage on Mac on the scipy09. We failed and Prabhu suggested to just use the framework build of python. I have some good news on this front. This morning I got mayavi working offscreen on bsd.math.w.e. I

[sage-devel] Re: cool things coming up in matplotlib

2009-08-04 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 08/04/09 00:58, Ondrej Certik wrote: I'm posting this since multiple people have touched this code in Sage, and might be interested in looking at a soon-to-be-native way to do it in matplotlib. Matplotlib guys rock. Btw, I just manage to get matplotlib working as a traits editor both

[sage-devel] Re: Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-08-03 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 08/04/09 00:32, Ondrej Certik wrote: I will dig up my framework python spkg and get back after I hear from the pythonmac-sig folks. Could you please share it? I have created sip (sip is something like swig, needed to built pyqt) and pyqt packages here: Ondrej, I put up a simple spkg

[sage-devel] Re: Python spkg for OSX framework build

2009-08-03 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/10/09 01:55, William Stein wrote: I've made an SPKG of a framework Python build -- it was really easy. The modified spkg-install is on bsd.math.washington.edu as is the spkg, they are here: /Users/Prabhu/spkg-install.python /Users/Prabhu/python-2.6.2.p2.spkg I'm not going to be

[sage-devel] Re: update on the vtk package

2009-07-17 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/16/09 06:57, Ondrej Certik wrote: Prabhu, did you make any progress on fixing VTK to build? I think the framework is only useful for a GUI, but we use notebook for the gui and there it just needs to build. Considering the amount of work and testing to convert all Sage to use framework

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/08/09 10:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. Many thanks for the update and for working on it. If it cannot be used offscreen, then I think it's a showstopper, that will create Mac a second class platform, that is incapable of hosting

[sage-devel] Re: Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi William, On 07/07/09 23:43, William Stein wrote: I feel embarrassed posting this (since others seem to be able to build sage on bsd.math) but I've run into a problem building sage-4.0.2 on bsd.math. I've tried twice and both times maxima fails to build with the following error: Well

[sage-devel] Re: Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/09/09 01:18, William Stein wrote: Many thanks and sorry for the bother! There isn't an immediate hurry though, I'm traveling the next couple of days. I'm 100% completely stumped by why Maxima won't build for you on bsd.math. Sorry. Fortunately, i tried typing Oh, wow! Many thanks

[sage-devel] Sage fails to build on bsd.math

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi, I feel embarrassed posting this (since others seem to be able to build sage on bsd.math) but I've run into a problem building sage-4.0.2 on bsd.math. I've tried twice and both times maxima fails to build with the following error: $ cd sage-4.0.2 $ ./sage -sh $ cd

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/01/09 03:22, Ondrej Certik wrote: If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users Thanks for this, I'll have a look at how to fix/patch VTK to build on Mac. I think Prabhu has a commit access, so he can

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/30/09 00:42, William Stein wrote: Oops, sage-4.0.2 doesn't build on bsd.math. Here is what I get after a long compile: For what it is worth, sage-4.0.2 does build fine on bsd.math. That's where I build all the OS X 10.5 intel binaries.Since you didn't actually post anything

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certikond...@certik.cz wrote: Hi, the optional vtk package fails to buid on Mac, it fails to configure. I didn't like the spkg install much, so I joined the Mac

[sage-devel] Re: URGENT: Help needed: Error in installing the package mesa-7.2

2009-06-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/19/09 01:43, Nicole Jinn wrote: To whom it may concern, I was trying to install the package mesa-7.2.spkg and the following errors came up: GLwDrawA.c:48:28: error: X11/IntrinsicP.h: No such file or directory GLwDrawA.c:49:28: error: X11/StringDefs.h: No such file or directory You

[sage-devel] Re: sage mentioned in slashdot comments right now

2009-05-27 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Jason Grout wrote: Ondrej Certik wrote: It even mentions my, Prabhu and Jaap's work on getting mayavi working in the sage notebook. Cool, it cost me several sleepless nights at the Siam conference. Here is the updated howto for getting it working in Sage/SPD:

[sage-devel] Re: Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-05-14 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 05/13/09 22:16, Brian Granger wrote: I just pinged the pythonmac-sig group about why and when a framework build is actually needed. A while back I created an spkg for qt/pyqt and I remember that I needed to do a framework build to get it to work. My recollection is that if you want

[sage-devel] Re: Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-05-14 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 05/10/09 23:18, mabshoff wrote: Well, it doesn't matter for builds from source too much, the real problem is when a user runs -upgrade for Sage. Sorry for being dense. You mean when the user runs -upgrade with a non-framework install? Suppose a user has a fresh install, would the

[sage-devel] Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-05-10 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi, I had a mini-vacation and I spent a while trying to get sage working with VTK on a Macbook. The machine is somewhat slow and experimenting takes a long while. I've managed to get VTK built with Sage but required a framework build. Here are the details. I've been using sage-3.4 (since

[sage-devel] Re: Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-05-10 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 05/10/09 21:03, mabshoff wrote: 1. Why isn't --enable-framework turned on by default for the sage python build on the Mac? If this isn't a hassle can you please consider making this the default? It caused some issues in the past and we would have to special case certain bits of

[sage-devel] Re: Using --enable-framework on Mac OS X?

2009-05-10 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 05/10/09 21:58, mabshoff wrote: Linking CXX shared library ../bin/libvtkCommonPythonD.dylib ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format with the -multi_module option SNIP Ok, check out http://www.mail-archive.com/g...@gcc.gnu.org/msg05799.html for a probable

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-05 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Rob Beezer wrote: Your script was your creative work (well, not very creative). You could have copied it onto CD's and sold those for whatever price you could fetch. I could not buy a CD from you and make copies to sell - that would violate your copyright. You have not modified Sage, you

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-02 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
mabshoff wrote: I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into the same trap. Thanks. Cool. Thanks for telling us - I have made this #5961. Glad to be of some assistance. BTW, the .pydistutils.cfg will affect any new spkg installs also since distutils will always

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-02 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
mabshoff wrote: So one option would be to backport the patch to the Python version you ship and always invoke setup.py such that it ignores the .pydistutils.cfg. Of course, a simple test script that looks for the file and warns the user (like the macports warning/error) would also work.

[sage-devel] Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-01 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Dear Sage developers, I tried to build Sage-3.4 on my intel macbook (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I have Xcode 2.5 installed and gcc-4.0.1. I downloaded the sage-3.4.tar, untarred it and ran make. I have macports installed so changed the PATH to remove anything from /opt. I also renamed /opt to

[sage-devel] Re: notebook and sage in path

2009-04-21 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 04/17/09 15:05, mabshoff wrote: On Apr 17, 2:25 am, Prabhu Ramachandran pra...@aero.iitb.ac.in wrote: On 04/17/09 13:37, mabshoff wrote: If your plan is still to recreate all scripts to be BSD the above would be more or less pointless, so you need to let us know what you want to do. I

[sage-devel] Re: notebook and sage in path

2009-04-21 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 04/21/09 13:31, mabshoff wrote: Ok. I tried to find what I was thinking off and could not find it, so it seems that my recollection was wrong, so mea culpa. Thanks for pinging Enthought on this to set the record straight. Not a problem. Thanks for all the excellent work on Sage! cheers,

[sage-devel] Re: notebook and sage in path

2009-04-17 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 04/17/09 13:37, mabshoff wrote: If your plan is still to recreate all scripts to be BSD the above would be more or less pointless, so you need to let us know what you want to do. I really don't want to relicense my code in $SAGE_LOCAL/ bin/sage-$FOO to BSD since the EPD for example has

[sage-devel] Re: mayavi spkg packages work

2009-04-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 04/06/09 17:26, François Bissey wrote: I was toying with the ebuild on Gentoo the other day and there we haven't been able to get rid of the dependency on wxpython although I haven't checked the command line version (was trying The mayavi2 command line application will always require a UI

[sage-devel] Re: quick reference

2009-03-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/29/09 08:29, William Stein wrote: I created a new 2-page Sage quick reference based on the one Peter Jipsen made a while ago. http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/quickref.pdf This is very nice. Thanks. prabhu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Re: Enthought tools install issues

2009-03-19 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/18/09 21:07, Jaap Spies wrote: You need the development part of tcl/tk. In Ubuntu you should do something like apt-get install tk8.4-dev or so. I don't remember exactly (I'm not on Ubuntu right now). I'm not sure why you need to enable VTK_USE_TK at all. I think it would be safe to

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-11 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/10/09 16:41, Jason Grout wrote: http://nb.hpfem.org/home/pub/16 I just installed FreeWRL and looked at this. Awesome! It looks like this might be the best way to get good opengl graphics (and mayavi!) in the sage notebook while we still wait on the possibility of an html

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-09 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/09/09 23:11, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Way back when I started working on the 3d stuff, this is what I imagined people would do. Unfortunately, x3d viewers aren't common (meaning not commonly installed, they are easy to get) and using an applet to install and/or view them was

[sage-devel] 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Dear Sage developers, Is it possible to view an x3d file from a sage worksheet (assuming my browser has the necessary plugin or java support for example)? I saw numerous mentions of x3d support in the source code in plot/plot3d. For example if one generates a 'foo.png', the image is

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi Carl, On 03/08/09 22:31, Carl Witty wrote: If you want to add such support, the place to look is sage/server/notebook/cell.py, in the function files_html. This function takes a list of all the files that were produced by evaluating the cell, and produces HTML with display or download

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/08/09 19:19, William Stein wrote: 3D interactivity. Here are a few simple examples from Ondrej's site that I made from some mlab examples: http://nb.hpfem.org/home/pub/16 Awesome!! Thanks, yes, the sage notebook is awesome! Another option would be to produce output suitable for

[sage-devel] Re: 3d display: x3d?

2009-03-08 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/09/09 03:01, Ondrej Certik wrote: embed width='400' height='300' src=./cell/14/a.x3d and it seems to work with my setup. I am using freewrl http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/ on Ubuntu 8.04. I just tried that too and it works for me as well: http://nb.hpfem.org/home/pub/15/ and

[sage-devel] Re: [Enthought-dev] mayavi in sage, howto

2009-03-06 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/06/09 13:18, Ondrej Certik wrote: After I do that it works fine. However, it might be nice to fix this be default by changing the content type response? That's weird, it works for me and I also use firefox. Do you know how I can reproduce the problem? Unfortunately, I have no idea.

[sage-devel] Re: mayavi in sage, howto

2009-03-06 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/07/09 01:45, Jaap Spies wrote: Some questions: 1) Do you need more than just mayavi2 from the ETS? If you only need mayavi2 there are a lot less dependencies: only vtk and wxPython IIRC. In addition, you can install mayavi2 without any dependency on Envisage or the traits UI

[sage-devel] Re: [Enthought-dev] mayavi in sage, howto

2009-03-05 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/06/09 09:40, Ondrej Certik wrote: Hi, I spent last couple days figuring out how to get mayavi2 installed into Sage, using offscreen rendering (e.g. so that you can use mayavi from ipython over ssh, without X), so that it can be used in the notebook easily. It was a lot of pain, so

[sage-devel] Re: [Enthought-dev] mayavi in sage, howto

2009-03-05 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/06/09 12:14, Ondrej Certik wrote: The error messages are very annoying though. Prabhu, do you know how to fix it? But it works, that's the most important. Ok, I fixed that by commenting the warning messages in the C++ file and reuploaded the spkg package. Well. :) Right, thats the

[sage-devel] Re: [Enthought-dev] mayavi in sage, howto

2009-03-05 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 03/06/09 12:45, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: On 03/06/09 12:14, Ondrej Certik wrote: The error messages are very annoying though. Prabhu, do you know how to fix it? But it works, that's the most important. Ok, I fixed that by commenting the warning messages in the C++ file and reuploaded