[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I propose to make Cephes (http://moshier.net/and http://www.netlib.org/cephes/) a standard SPKG in Sage.  In order to complete the Cygwin port on Windows,

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I propose to make Cephes

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:00, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: SNIP There are other alternatives. Such as? * As I said above, incorporate it into Cygwin. * Provide an optional spkg. * Provide (it with) Cygwin or a patch to Cygwin.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:00, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 10:47 AM, leif wrote: SNIP There are other alternatives. Such as? * As I said above, incorporate it into Cygwin. * Provide an optional spkg. *

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you really need them. One of the points of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
that slope some, as cygwin is a dependancy (though one could imagine   shipping a cygwin+sage binary that just requires double clicking and   installs like any other standard MS app). I believe that the plan is to offer that as an option (and maybe it used to be one), correct? - kcrisman --

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:46, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main  

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:39 AM, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein wst...@gmail.com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ made prerequisites, such that you only

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-26 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
It seems to me that the argument use the right OS was quite often in discussions about Windows port, pointing out also that many people have an old computer where they can put Linux keeping Windows on the main one, if they are so addicted. Well, I never agreed with this approach. Windows is

[sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? According to http://www.netlib.org/cephes/readme Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall or Simon Schuster International, 1989) or from the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? According to http://www.netlib.org/cephes/readme   Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and Programs for Mathematical

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread Mike Hansen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? It's included in Debian as GPL -- we can just obtain a copy from them. See

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available? It's included in Debian as GPL -- we can just obtain a copy from them.  

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Make Cephes a standard spkg

2010-05-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 5/25/10 8:49 PM, David Joyner wrote: Is license info available?