Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-16 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:41:31 William Stein wrote: If you link against mpir then the above discrepancy would go away. However, i can also tell you that the above discrepancy is harmless. The issue is simply that both answers are right. e.g., the line sage: x = crt(2, 1, 3, 5); x uses the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:18 AM, François Bissey wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:41:31 William Stein wrote: If you link against mpir then the above discrepancy would go away. However, i can also tell you that the above discrepancy is harmless. The issue is simply that both answers are right. e.g.,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-16 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:23:58 Robert Bradshaw wrote: MPIR is supposed to be a drop in replacement for GMP and provides a compatibility mode, so we really are linking to MPIR. (It's also force of habit, and easier than patching all the upstream packages). Well it will be easier to fix our

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-16 Thread Georg S. Weber
Now for the serious stuff as we need to figure what's going wrong at some stage so here are some of our failures: sage -t  devel/sage/doc/en/bordeaux_2008/modular_symbols.rst * File

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Feb., 12:38, cschwan csch...@stamaonline.de wrote: Hello, since this is my first post on this list I think it is a good idea to briefly introduce myself: My name is Christopher Schwan, I am studying physics at Uni Mainz (Germany) and I am one of the maintainers of sage-on-gentoo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread cschwan
Though these would be good to fix, I'm wary of all of the above for a stabilization release. Oh, I overlooked the most important part: Stabilization release - the tickets wouldnt serve that purpose, of course. Nevertheless, these would be the ones which I would like to see fixed :) . Sounds

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:47:45 Georg S. Weber wrote: On 15 Feb., 12:38, cschwan csch...@stamaonline.de wrote: Hello, since this is my first post on this list I think it is a good idea to briefly introduce myself: My name is Christopher Schwan, I am studying physics at Uni Mainz (Germany)

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:47:45 Georg S. Weber wrote: On 15 Feb., 12:38, cschwan csch...@stamaonline.de wrote: Hello, since this is my first post on this list I think it is a good idea to briefly introduce

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:40:11 William Stein wrote: sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst ** File /opt/sage/devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst, line 94: sage: x = crt(2, 1, 3, 5); x Expected:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:09 PM, François Bissey wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:40:11 William Stein wrote: sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst ** File /opt/sage/devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:40:11 William Stein wrote: sage -t  devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst ** File

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:41:31 William Stein wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:40:11 William Stein wrote: sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/tutorial/tour_numtheory.rst

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage on Gentoo - a status report and some suggestions

2010-02-15 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:38:59 Robert Bradshaw wrote: Another issue with the piecemeal approach is that upgrading a component could suddenly cause Sage to break. Have you given any thought to how you will handle this? Kind of. We can have several versions of the same package in tree. We can