[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Abbott
On Aug 24, 4:45 pm, iSAGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is exciting news. Just curious about the debian package - it will > probably not have many of the optional packages. What will be the > procedure to install optional packages then? For example, I am > interested in nauty, which I believe

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:45 PM, iSAGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", >> > which is number 1 on my wish-list. >> >> That day should be very soon, I hope. (Tim Abbott -- any updates on the >> status of this?) > >> -- Will

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread iSAGE
> > I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", > > which is number 1 on my wish-list. > > That day should be very soon, I hope.  (Tim Abbott -- any updates on the > status of this?) > -- William This is exciting news. Just curious about the debian package - it will

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, William Stein wrote: > >>> I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", >>> which is number 1 on my wish-list. >> >> That day should be very soon, I hope. (Tim Abbott --

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, William Stein wrote: >> I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", >> which is number 1 on my wish-list. > > That day should be very soon, I hope. (Tim Abbott -- any updates on the > status of this?) All the dependencies are now in Debian, but th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:45 PM, iSAGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It should be self-contained, easily installed (and uninstalled), Sage is self contained, more than any very nontrivial open source math software I know of. Sage is easily installed, and uninstalled, since it is self containe

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-24 Thread iSAGE
> It should be self-contained, easily installed (and uninstalled), I totally agree with this. For example, sage --upgrade (or whatever the correct command is) has never worked for me (on Ubuntu 8.04), and I am really looking for the day when I will do "apt-get install sage", which is number 1 on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:48 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jason Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Brian Hayes writes a regular column for American Scientist called >> Computing Science. In his latest article, "Calculemus!" >> http://www.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-23 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jason Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Hayes writes a regular column for American Scientist called > Computing Science. In his latest article, "Calculemus!" > http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/5/calculemus/1, Hayes > suggests that widel