Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage 9.8.rc1 builds, but reports an empty list of packages failed.

2023-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 22:11, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > I'm just running >> >> make -j ptestlong >> > > yes. Although -j without a parameter is a bit risky... > Point taken Dima about using -j without a parameter. That could have been tricky if doctesting had used thousands of threads.😂😂 TLDR

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage 9.8.rc1 builds, but reports an empty list of packages failed.

2023-02-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
ed6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/d8f4be62-0201-4b51-8869-6f034a511ed6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage 9.8.rc1 builds, but reports an empty list of packages failed.

2023-02-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 21:31, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > we have 9.8 now :-) > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/releases > Okay, I'm trying again. It seems an unusual build process. * There's a configure.ac, but no configure script. * I typed make, which then builds a configure script, and exits w

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage 9.8.rc1 builds, but reports an empty list of packages failed.

2023-02-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 21:06, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 8:33 PM David Kirkby wrote: > >> /home/drkirkby/miniforge3/bin/R > > > Oh, you build in Conda... > This might be a bit of a problem - it's not too well-tested for sure. > Did you see https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/in

Re: [sage-support] Ssh problems

2017-02-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 21 February 2017 at 17:48, Simon King wrote: > > Is the problem on my side? > > Also I see that (unlike in the past) I could not do > ssh simonk...@sage.math.washington.edu > (on two different laptops). It tells me "Permission denied (publickey)". > drkirkby@hawk:~/openssh-7.4p1$ ./ssh kir

Re: [sage-support] Why cannot Sage run as a native application on Windows

2015-01-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 23 Jan 2015 21:24, "Jeroen Demeyer" wrote: > > On 2015-01-23 22:19, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: >> >> But I think you should elaborate a bit more since the question was about >> Cygwin. > > I think the original question was native o

Re: [sage-support] Why cannot Sage run as a native application on Windows

2015-01-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 16 Jan 2015 14:45, "William Stein" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:59 AM, 张秦川 wrote: > > Python can be used on windows. And sage is written in python. > > So why cannot Sage run as a native application on Windows. > > Because people haven't done the work to make it happen. What you say i

Re: [sage-support] is it possible to keep writing y(x) instead of just y in differential equations?

2014-08-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
ite. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/author.html?author=Nasser+M.+Abbasi I wonder what made you start using Sage? I hope you get your questions answered. Dave (a Sage developer). -- Dr. David Kirkby G8WRB http://www.vnacalibration.co.uk/ Economical & accurate VNA calibration kits. Coeff

Re: [sage-support] Want all real solutions to a Simple trig equation

2014-05-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I On 3 May 2014 16:54, "Javier Marquez" wrote: > > solve(sin(x)==1/2,x) produces only one solution. Is here a way to have sage produce all real solutions ? Thx Is there not an infinite number of solutions? If so, it would be difficult to get them all Dave -- You received this message because

Re: [sage-support] Re: Build Sage 5.13 or 6.0 on Solaris 10 x86 and Sparc

2014-04-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
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Re: [sage-support] Re: demo server down

2012-09-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 28/09/2012 18:56, William Stein wrote: In the next few months, I'll be launching the service described here, which you'll have the opportunity to financially support: http://wstein.org/grants/2012-rrf/rrf.pdf -- William I read that, and two things come to mind. 1) A minor one, but

Re: [sage-support] Re: Application/Use of Sage in IT company or Industries

2012-05-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/13/12 06:36 PM, Robert Miller wrote: I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in industry, because it is a very big install Sage is similar in size to Mathematica, and probably MATLAB and Maple too. The binary installations for all of these packages are 100

Re: [sage-support] Building on Solaris 10 - cvxopt will not build

2012-03-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/29/12 12:40 AM, deSitter wrote: Hello, Two issues, one solved by brute force, the other needs a new cvxopt-1.1.3 package. I am using gcc 4.6.2 newly built and tested, and the Sun linker. I have Sun Studio 12 installed. I built gcc4 with the gcc 3.4.6 package from Sunfreeware. During th

[sage-support] Book on Sage published.

2011-05-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I got an email from the publisher today confirming the book on Sage has been published, although the web site still says to be published in May 2011. http://www.packtpub.com/sage-beginners-guide/book Some fraction of sales will go to Sage, though I'm not sure what fraction, or if there needs t

Re: [sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/ 4/11 10:19 PM, John Cremona wrote: Simon, I have tried and failed to load the large SW database (and complained about this to William yesterday). All the spkg_install scripts is to move a whole lot of files, but it uses the command "mv -r" which is illegal on my machines (ubuntu linux).

Re: [sage-support] Re: Trouble with sage installation on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/30/11 09:59 PM, Alex Lara wrote: The command ./sage -f python (after install libssl-dev) did not work, but sage -f python-2.6.4.p10.spkg did work (I think). I ran make test. The following test failed: sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/rings/number_field/ number_field.py" Do yo

Re: [sage-support] Re: Difficulties with Sage installation on ubuntu 10.04 lts

2011-04-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/26/11 05:27 PM, jean-pierre.peigneux wrote: Thank you for fast answer ;I am joining the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo just below: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping: 1 cpu MHz

Re: [sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/23/11 04:41 PM, kcrisman wrote: This is a little OT, but just for reference, the R devels have made it clear that without an X and display actually present, Cairo is the only way to go to get this to work. With your setup, you presumably have a display in your VM, so your solution makes s

[sage-support] Re: building sage on OpenSolaris x86

2011-04-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/ 6/11 09:33 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, Well I have tried to compile sage on OpenIndiana and it does not compile. In particular, it stops as follows /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_RTREE -g -O2-o sqli

Re: [sage-support] Abridged summary of sage-support@googlegroups.com - 13 Messages in 6 Topics

2011-03-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
own version of ATLAS, set more...<http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/msg/d7e82e72b81bace5> "Dr. David Kirkby" Mar 30 06:08PM +0100 ^<#12f0806f0436b28f_digest_top> On 03/30/11 02:33 AM, Roy Joshua wrote: > Hi, > I have a Dell 980 optiplex ma

Re: [sage-support] Abridged summary of sage-support@googlegroups.com - 13 Messages in 6 Topics

2011-03-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/31/11 05:44 AM, Roy Joshua wrote: Hi, I tried the suggestion to use the command SAGE64=yes export SAGE64 that was suggested as response to my last message by David Kirkby. (My last message was that I could not install sage-4.6.2 to a machine running Centos 5.5. This is a 64 bit machine wi

Re: [sage-support] trouble installing sage

2011-03-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/30/11 02:33 AM, Roy Joshua wrote: Hi, I have a Dell 980 optiplex machine with i7 processor (8 core), 16GB RAM. I tried to install sage on it with OS: Centos 5.5. That's an impressive machine. Clearly not an old relic. CLEANM -DATL_UCLEANN -DATL_UCLEANK -O -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -m

Re: [sage-support] SAGE cluster?

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 3/11 01:46 AM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8537 Thanx for this ticket info. It looks like this MPI pkg is now installable as a special pkg? How do I do that? How do I use openMPI and mpi4py in SAGE after the install? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math

Re: [sage-support] SAGE cluster?

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 2/11 11:34 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: I have the SAGE binary installed on 25 Ubuntu boxes in my classroom. I wonder if there's anyway to use this as a cluster to run python code in parallel? I recall some work to that end some time ago with dSAGE and the @parallel decorator. However, dS

Re: [sage-support] Re: Accessing R documentation trough notebook broken with 4.6.1?

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/28/11 04:08 PM, kcrisman wrote: On Feb 28, 3:21 am, Andrzej Giniewicz wrote: Hello, today I noticed that I cannot access R docs trough notebook, while it still works like usual from command line. This is what is inside notebook when viewed as text: sage: r.lm? Traceback (most recent

Re: [sage-support] 3DPlot error

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/28/11 05:00 AM, Thomas Rike wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask a question. Yes it is. I just downloaded the Sage-4.6.1-OSX-64bit-10.6 app to my 27" iMac and my MacBookPro. On my iMac I cannot use parametric_plot3d. The Java applet does not run. I get a black screen t

Re: [sage-support] Re: Configuring sage at the bash prompt

2011-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/10/11 09:27 PM, akm wrote: On Feb 9, 2:39 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: e.g. $ sage -notebook secure=True ends up as notebook(secure=True) in the ipython interpreter. Thanks for the quick response! I was looking for a way of adding the adminpassword and hostname as options of the notebook

Re: [sage-support] Help

2010-12-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 12/24/10 06:23 AM, vijay sharma wrote: Hello Could you help me to install the binaries of SAGE? I downloaded the SAGE binary for Fedora. But when I ran *./sage* command, I am getting the following error: - cannot execute the binary. Regards Vijay I'm not sure why you are running *./sag

Re: Re : [sage-support] [fedora14] installation failed

2010-11-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/15/10 07:29 PM, Mike Witt wrote: On 11/15/2010 10:57:39 AM, Colombel Bruno wrote: Hi, As sage-4.6 doesn't work, i try to install sage-4.4.4 which was working on Fedora13 : Host system uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:36:08 UTC 2010 x86_64

Re: [sage-support] Re: numerical integration of bessel_J functions

2010-11-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 2/09 08:11 PM, svanshaar wrote: Thanks Jason! That works perfectly. I don't know if any of this uses the GNU Scientific library, but there are reports of bug in the Bessel functions on there. "gsl_sf_bessel_lnKnu overflows for large nu" which the developers have acknowledged and ha

Re: [sage-support] Sage and Macaulay 2

2010-11-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/10/10 04:14 PM, doug5y wrote: Is it required to download and install Macaulay 2 for sage to use it? Yes, it is optional. I created a ticket the other day http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10117 to say this should be documented, as its not clear from reading the documentation th

Re: [sage-support] Symbolic Product

2010-11-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 9/10 06:52 PM, Geoff wrote: Hello Mathematica has a symbolic product so that means Sage should. I don't think Sage does. I found symbolic sum but not symbolic product in the reference files. I need to be able to define a function of a variable x which involves several symbolic products

Re: [sage-support] openSUSE 11.1 support to be discontinued

2010-10-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/26/10 05:09 PM, todd rme wrote: Currently the sage build farm only has openSUSE 11.1 builds available. However, openSUSE 11.2 came out almost a year ago and openSUSE 11.3 came out several months ago. With fixes now being implemented for Sage 4.6, (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/t

Re: [sage-support] Re: installation under snow leopard

2010-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/23/10 12:51 AM, Michael Welsh wrote: The root password doesn't work with sudo, you need to login as "su" (just type that) first. However, sudo is much easier. HTH, Michael In general there is no user called "su", so one can't log in as "su". su is a command to 'switch user'. By defau

Re: [sage-support] status of Macaulay2 ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/21/10 01:07 PM, Dumont Thierry wrote: One of my colleague want Macaulay2. Macaulay2 does not appear in the list of optional packages. BUT: sage -i macaulay2 downloads the packages. It says: need gdbm. Ok, we install it. then: sage -i macaulay2 fails again: no correct autoconf available.

Re: [sage-support] Can't compute modular degree for elliptic curves in 4.5.2

2010-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/20/10 12:07 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote: On Oct 17, 2010, at 17:50 , gagan wrote: sage: E=EllipticCurve('11a1'); sage: E.modular_degree(); /Applications/sage/local/bin/sympow: line 3: 9922 Segmentation fault ./sympow $* I can't reproduce this problem (Mac OS X, 10.6.4, Dual Quad X

Re: [sage-support] Can we "lock" parts of a worksheet?

2010-10-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/18/10 07:31 AM, Nikos Apostolakis wrote: Dear group, we are creating some worksheets to be used in teaching precalculus, and we wonder if it's possible to have parts of a worksheet "locked", so that the're not easily (read accidentally) editable. The fear is that students may accidentally

[sage-support] Re: Question on Sage math - loading modules

2010-10-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Oct 12, 9:15 pm, Jürgen Will wrote: > Hallo, > > how can I load a module like symmetrica into Sage? > ? symmetrica works, symmetrica ? works, and help(symmetrica) works. > > Thanks. You would be far better asking on the sage-support mailing list. Just join at http://groups.google.com/group/sa

Re: [sage-support] suse 11.2

2010-10-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/12/10 04:07 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: Martin Rubey writes: I just discovered http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8978 does this imply that the binary on sagemath provided for suse 11.1 will not work on suse 11.2? It seems it doesn't! Below what happens. Any cure? Is it known w

Re: [sage-support] Re: What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie students?

2010-10-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/10/10 04:19 AM, kcrisman wrote: Yeah, it's still really annoying to get the VMWare itself, though, and requires giving out semi-personal information, which is perhaps not what one would want to get students interested in mathematical software... I expect students have to do the same to ru

Re: [sage-support] Re: Segfault when printing a copy of symbolic object

2010-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/ 8/10 02:25 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Oct 7, 8:50 pm, Mike Hansen wrote: It doesn't have anything to do with the compiler warning messages -- the problem is much simpler than that. The implementation of Element.__copy__ is wrong for Expression objects; namely, it doesn't set the _gobj att

Re: [sage-support] Re: Segfault when printing a copy of symbolic object

2010-10-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/ 7/10 09:05 PM, kcrisman wrote: While on my PPC OS X 10.4 machine, I just get a long hang (this is 4.6.alpha2) with no output. More precisely, with sage -gdb I get sage: copy(x) Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at addre

Re: [sage-support] Re: Segfault when printing a copy of symbolic object

2010-10-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/ 7/10 08:55 PM, kcrisman wrote: On Oct 7, 11:44 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: On 10/ 6/10 03:18 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: Sage segfaults when printing a copy of something symbolics : sage: copy(x) As I noted earlier, I see this on my machine (Sun Ultra 27 running O

Re: [sage-support] Segfault when printing a copy of symbolic object

2010-10-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/ 6/10 03:18 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: Sage segfaults when printing a copy of something symbolics : sage: copy(x) As I noted earlier, I see this on my machine (Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris). However, it must be relatively new, as I do *NOT* see the segfault at http://t2nb.math.w

Re: [sage-support] Segfault when printing a copy of symbolic object

2010-10-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 10/ 6/10 03:18 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: Sage segfaults when printing a copy of something symbolics : sage: copy(x) Unhandled SIGSEGV: A segmentation fault occurred in Sage. This probably occurred because a *compiled* component

Re: [sage-support] integer factorization benchmarks

2010-09-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/16/10 11:23 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 09/16/10 09:10 PM, Greg Marks wrote: Out of curiosity... At http://sagemath.org/tour-benchmarks.html the CPU time given for factorization of the integer 2^512 - 1 with SAGE version 4.1.1 is 92.29 sec. I just tried this with SAGE version 4.5.2

Re: [sage-support] integer factorization benchmarks

2010-09-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/16/10 09:10 PM, Greg Marks wrote: Out of curiosity... At http://sagemath.org/tour-benchmarks.html the CPU time given for factorization of the integer 2^512 - 1 with SAGE version 4.1.1 is 92.29 sec. I just tried this with SAGE version 4.5.2, running under 64-bit Linux on a laptop with an

Re: [sage-support] Re: installation problem

2010-09-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/16/10 07:43 PM, robin hankin wrote: Thanks for this Marshall. I did try to compile my own, but ran in to utter dependency hell. In the end I managed to get it to work by deleting some of the readline libraries, but I don't understand why that worked. Redline often causes problems on Sag

Re: [sage-support] Re: Mathematica

2010-09-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 9/10 10:53 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: Dave, I think the key point is that there are clearly companies and organizations that use python for engineering. I agree lots of companies use Python for engineering. But if that was the key point, it was not clear to me: ==

Re: [sage-support] Re: Mathematica

2010-09-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/10/10 10:49 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: Full disclosure: I knew about the Wolfram tour of ZA. I heard they were visiting our institute, and assumed it was the same presentation promoting Mathematica. http://www.wolfram.com/events/southafrica2010/ It is not, I now found out. It is the same

Re: [sage-support] Re: Mathematica

2010-09-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 9/10 04:41 PM, Ben Edwards wrote: I might shy away from any personal attacks on Stephen Wolfram, despite controversy as him as a scientist. This should be about comparing sage and Mathematica, not the people behind them. I think that would be *very* wise. I'm no fan of Steven Wolfram. I

Re: [sage-support] Mathematica

2010-09-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 9/10 10:47 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: * the price of the software http://www.wolfram.com/events/southafrica2010/ $139.95 even for students. I'm not sure I can convey how astronomical that amount to almost all African students. Worse, when they want to start a small business after completin

Re: [sage-support] netcdf error in sage-4.5.2

2010-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 6/10 11:12 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:03 PM, samrat wrote: When i recompile netcdf-4.1.1 with CFLAGS=-fPIC i no longer get this error. It this a bug in sage or what i have done is correct? Many standard packages that are shipped by default with Sage are usuall

Re: [sage-support] Re: Number of CPUs?

2010-09-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 4/10 12:10 AM, Simon King wrote: Hi David! On 4 Sep., 01:01, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: Be aware, that for hyperthreaded machines, the number of CPUs may exceed the number of cores. Ah. I guess that I wanted the number of cores. If, as you say, half the CPUs is enough to

Re: [sage-support] Re: Number of CPUs?

2010-09-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 09/ 3/10 07:00 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: On Sep 3, 10:47 am, Simon King wrote: I'd like to restrict @parallel(ncpus=...), where "..." is something like 1/2 (or 1/3?) of the available CPUs. But how can I determine this number? From sage (or python): sage: import multiprocessing

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/28/10 12:27 PM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: The invalid HTML is orthogonal to this issue and is merely a typo. The tag merely affects form display semantics and does not have anything to do regarding cookies. Frankly, even http://google.com has invalid HTML: http://validator.w3.org/check?ur

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/28/10 05:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 8/27/10 8:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Grout wrote: On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently. Maybe this has been fixed. Unfortunately, we just upgrade

Re: [sage-support] Re: subtraction with dates?

2010-08-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/25/10 09:12 AM, Simon King wrote: On 25 Aug., 02:07, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: ... The silly thing is, they have known about this defect for 9 months, but it was given a low priority. 9 months later it damages our car, and the council denies they were aware the road was dange

Re: [sage-support] subtraction with dates?

2010-08-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/25/10 12:58 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was thinking of suggesting they use Sage to find out the number of days between two dates, and so would realise that there is more than a month between 5th Jan and the 16th Feb! sage: from

[sage-support] subtraction with dates?

2010-08-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'd like to find the number of days between two dates - is there any simple way to do this in Sage. The reason for wanting this is quite funny, but I thought I'd use it to plug Sage! Our car got damaged by a pothole. We made a claim to the council. We finally receiving a letter from their leg

Re: [sage-support] Re: Those cookies again...

2010-08-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/23/10 04:20 PM, kcrisman wrote: Well, in general it seems to me that most Sage bugs come from things/ functionality that didn't exist before, and once they exist people want to start using them. Well, there are an alful lot of open-bugs in trac. Some have been open a very long time. The

Re: [sage-support] Those cookies again...

2010-08-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/22/10 11:34 PM, Mike Witt wrote: On 08/22/2010 01:01:17 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 08/22/10 04:47 PM, Jeff Post wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2010 08:07, Mike Witt wrote: Having said this, I can't help but wonder what possible motivation there could be, among developers,

Re: [sage-support] Those cookies again...

2010-08-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/22/10 04:47 PM, Jeff Post wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2010 08:07, Mike Witt wrote: Having said this, I can't help but wonder what possible motivation there could be, among developers, to do something like a bug fix release? Professionalism? Jeff Mike, Making bug-fix releases is an

Re: [sage-support] Those cookies again...

2010-08-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/22/10 03:12 AM, kcrisman wrote: I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies recently. Maybe this has been fixed. Unfortunately, we just upgraded our campus server to 4.3 (the latest VMWare image that we hadn't heard problems about) and apparently it is hexed by th

Re: [sage-support] Memleak: could this be solved please?

2010-08-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/10/10 06:32 AM, Rolandb wrote: Hi, Memory leaks are annoying. For instance #9298. Could somebody have a look at it? Thanks in advance! Roland I've left a comment on your trac ticket. This is related to Singular and there's a new version of Singular which I hope gets merged soon http:/

Re: [sage-support] Sage running slowly in Ubuntu compared to VirtualBox

2010-08-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 9/10 08:12 PM, Istarion wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and started running Sage from there. Previously, I had used VirtualBox running in Windows Vista to run Sage. However, I upon running one of my programs, I noticed that the program had run about 5 times faster in Virtu

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-08-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 2/10 12:18 AM, William Stein wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either. William I thought yo

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/29/10 08:48 PM, DWL wrote: That's fine. Perhaps the Solaris hardware requirements can be made explicit on the install page and in the README.txt file? I think you will have a problem if you build Sage with gcc 4.5.0 on Solaris, though I am working on a fix. Any version in the range 4.0.1

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either. William I thought you and Mike Hansen were working on that, and expected to have it done for Sage 5.0 next month. I might be pers

Re: [sage-support] Re: Mac OS install observation

2010-07-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/30/10 02:59 AM, DWL wrote: It occurs for me with the most recent version of the disk image on the download page. The workaround of not using a folder with a space in the name is fine for my purposes. dan IMHO, we should try to fix the packages which don't accept spaces. Currently ther

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/29/10 08:48 PM, DWL wrote: That's fine. Perhaps the Solaris hardware requirements can be made explicit on the install page and in the README.txt file? Yes, I agree, the README.txt does need more information about building Sage on Solaris. Any 64-bit SPARC hardware with Solaris 10 on it c

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/29/10 07:04 PM, DWL wrote: Machine: SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-03 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Blade-100 (UltraSPARC-IIe) OS:Solaris 10 5/09 s10s_u7wos_08 SPARC Other processor info: The sparcv9 processor operates at 502 MHz. 64-bit sparcv9 applications vis 32-bit sparc applicati

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/29/10 02:11 AM, DWL wrote: Dear Dr. Kirkby, After taking the suggested actions, I still have errors as shown here: % which ranlib /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib % ./sage -- | Sage Version 4.5.1, Release Date: 2010-07-19

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/28/10 07:54 PM, DWL wrote: If this isn't the forum for asking install questions, by all means, stop reading and tell me where to direct this question. ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: /user/hilbert/bin/sage-4.5.1-Solaris_10_SPARC-sun4u-SunOS/local/lib//libgmp.so.3: bad ELF flags va

Re: [sage-support] Solaris installation problems

2010-07-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/28/10 07:54 PM, DWL wrote: If this isn't the forum for asking install questions, by all means, stop reading and tell me where to direct this question. This is the place to ask about install questions. I've downloaded and unpacked the .7z binaries for Solaris according to the instruction

Re: [sage-support] Re: tell to sage "do something if you can but if you can not, pass to anything else"

2010-07-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/16/10 02:23 PM, m.rebolledo wrote: Hi William, for instance when I want to factorize R_c=144763933371168295360588806517031343810867811420949837921127754871142510638597993151140758238582970883311740185886224693481724200740771649359046662103894016000 I get the message : ***

Re: [sage-support] tell to sage "do something if you can but if you can not, pass to anything else"

2010-07-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/16/10 11:32 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, troublion wrote: hello, within a procedure I need to factorize an integer R_c depending on a parameter c which I can change if I want. But this integer can be very big (like 170 digits or more...) so sage could not fa

Re: [sage-support] SuSE binaries of Sage 4.4.4 broken

2010-07-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/15/10 07:53 PM, todd rme wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:43 AM, William Stein wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Alexander Dreyer wrote: Hi there, the binary for SuSE 11.1 is corrupted: sage-4.4.4-linux-64bit-opensuse_11.1_x86_64-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz md5sum is ok, but it could n

Re: [sage-support] An argument for more direct axiom integration

2010-07-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/13/10 08:05 AM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 07/ 5/10 06:18 AM, William Stein wrote: Great idea - you could add an algorithm="axiom" option to sage's in

Re: [sage-support] Running Sage for web browser automatically on bootup

2010-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/ 6/10 08:48 PM, rvaug...@gmail.com wrote: I can manually start Sage for web access as follows from the command line: [sag...@het-math ~]$ sage -- | Sage Version 4.3.4, Release Date: 2010-03-19 | | Typ

Re: [sage-support] An argument for more direct axiom integration

2010-07-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/ 5/10 06:18 AM, William Stein wrote: Great idea - you could add an algorithm="axiom" option to sage's integrate command. Personally, and I am going to dare risk argue with a mathematician, I would not have considered Axion an algorithm, but a software package. So something like "method=

Re: [sage-support] Re: Bessel Function Zeroes

2010-07-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/ 4/10 07:25 AM, Jason Grout wrote: You could also use mpmath to calculate the roots: http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.15/doc/build/functions/bessel.html?highlight=bessel (specifically, see the example "Roots of Bessel functions are often used:") Jason It would be good if how to

Re: [sage-support] Re: Which python for sage?

2010-07-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/ 3/10 04:33 PM, William Stein wrote: Sage can't switch to Python 3 until every single Python package in Sage is ported to Python 3. This is far from done. It's possible that for some packages, nobody is even working on doing a port. In such cases, our only hope is to either do the port ou

Re: [sage-support] Running Sage remotely via web browser w/ firewall enabled(?)

2010-06-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/30/10 01:55 AM, rvaug...@gmail.com wrote: I am running Sage 4.3.4 on Scientific Linux. Right now the only way I can make it available via a web browser is to disable the firewall (not, obviously, a long-term solution). I have SELinux as permissive, and the following as trusted services: HT

Re: [sage-support] setting up sage behind an ISA server

2010-06-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/27/10 11:08 PM, dirkd wrote: The problem seems to be an infinite loop in redirecting the browser. Similar problems have been reported with PHP-sites but I doubt if SAGE uses PHP. Sage definitely does not use PHP. Anyone familiar with this problem? Any suggestions for a workaround? M

Re: [sage-support] Fwd: [sage-edu] Installation on Fedora 13

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/22/10 11:56 PM, David Joyner wrote: Forwarded from sage-edu. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:52 PM Subject: [sage-edu] Installation on Fedora 13 To: sage-edu I tried to install Sage from source on Fedora (Linux Fedora 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86

Re: [sage-support] Trouble with the binary version of Sage 4.4.3 on Fedora 12

2010-06-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/20/10 08:36 PM, SteveDunbar wrote: I am having trouble with the binary version of Sage 4.4.3 on Fedora 12 Linux. What do I need to do to fix the problem? Details below: From http://boxen.math.washington.edu/sage/linux/index.html I downloaded sage-4.4.3-linux-64bit-fedora_release_12_con

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem finding numeric eigenvectors

2010-06-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/ 7/10 03:46 PM, Mike Witt wrote: On 06/06/2010 10:43:38 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: On Jun 6, 9:05 am, Mike Witt wrote: > This does kind of reinforce the concept, which I guess I've > heard expressed before here, that you have to be prepared > to update your sage build very frequently in order

Re: [sage-support] Quotient of two submodules

2010-06-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/19/10 04:15 PM, William Stein wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Johannes wrote: I'm working with the version, contained in ubuntu 10.04 Delete that and get a recent version from http://sagemath.org/. The Ubuntu/Debian version is ancient (well over 2 years old), and nobody working

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/18/10 11:30 PM, William Stein wrote: Fair enough. I'll post a list of "highly recommended optional packages" in this thread sometime in the next few days. William IMHO, there should be some distinction between optional and experimental. At the moment, there appears to be done. My ow

Re: [sage-support] Building from source sage 4.4.3 under Debian lenny amd64: gcc and g++ versions do not match

2010-06-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/12/10 12:53 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jun 11, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 06/11/10 10:51 PM, orca wrote: Hi there, I am a newbie to Sage, though I have some experience with Linux and Python in general. I have tried to build the latest 4.4.3 version of Sage from

Re: [sage-support] Building from source sage 4.4.3 under Debian lenny amd64: gcc and g++ versions do not match

2010-06-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/11/10 10:51 PM, orca wrote: Hi there, I am a newbie to Sage, though I have some experience with Linux and Python in general. I have tried to build the latest 4.4.3 version of Sage from source, but, after having checked that I apparently have all necessary program dependencies satisfied, a

Re: [sage-support] Warning messages when compiling 'lcalc'

2010-06-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/ 8/10 08:38 PM, Michael Rubinstein wrote: The antiquated header files and unused variables have been removed in L-1.3, which has not yet been released to the public. It should be released in the next couple of weeks. Best, Mike It would be good if you could remove that option from your

Re: [sage-support] Re: Problem finding numeric eigenvectors

2010-06-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/ 7/10 06:43 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: On Jun 6, 9:05 am, Mike Witt wrote: This does kind of reinforce the concept, which I guess I've heard expressed before here, that you have to be prepared to update your sage build very frequently in order to keep up with things. Exactly. ;-) But with

Re: [sage-support] Re: Using LiE

2010-06-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/ 4/10 06:21 AM, Thierry Dumont wrote: To compile Lie you must (or your systeme administrator) add some tools on your machine: -bison -the ncurses lib. On an Ubuntu machine, I installed (apt-get): libncurses5, libncursesw5 , ncurses-base ncurses-bin and bison. It will take 5 minutes to your

Re: [sage-support] Re: Are there statisticians using Sage?

2010-05-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/20/10 06:41 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/20/10 9:56 AM, David Kirkby wrote: I gave a talk last night at the London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG) with the title "Porting Sage open source mathematics software to OpenSolaris". I've stuck a copy of the presentation at http://boxen.math.washi

Re: [sage-support] Growth potential for open source math tools: 10 questions

2010-04-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: Spammer? Should we block this guy? Personally I think it is mis-guided rather than spam. It is also on the R mailing list. dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr..

Re: [sage-support] Sage under Windows - your experiences?

2010-04-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alasdair wrote: Next semester I'd like to try to use Sage in my cryptography class My experience with students using Linux is less than positive; many feel horribly out of their comfort zone when not in a Windows environment. So I'd like (for file handling, saving and retrieving files etc)

Re: [sage-support] Re: sage 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 on solaris sparc

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
adrian wrote: We did not compile sage, but used the one that was pre-compiled. The error is --- ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/local/ src/sage-4.3.4-Solaris-sun4u-SunOS/local/lib//libntl.so: symbol _ZSt16__ostream_insertIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basi

Re: [sage-support] sage 4.3.4 or 4.3.5 on solaris sparc

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
adrian wrote: Hi, in the math department here at Montana State, we were trying to install sage on Sparc. There are some reports that sage 4.3.4 could be installed on Solaris/Sparc, and we got a binary following the thread http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/62a920b

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