sage-4.2.1

[William Stein]

Hi,

Mike Hansen and I have finished sage-4.2.1:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/farm/src/sage-4.2.1.tar

Release notes, binaries, the above being posted online, etc., will
follow in due course.

William

--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[William Stein]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Minh Nguyen <nguye...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,

>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:35 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mike Hansen and I have finished sage-4.2.1:
>>
>>   http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/farm/src/sage-4.2.1.tar
>

> If the next release is a major features release, e.g. Sage 4.3, then

Yes Sage-4.3 will be the next release, and I hope it has some major
features (e.g., lots of the combinatorics codebase gets merged back
into mainline sage).

> I'll start work on doing a maintenance release for Sage 4.2.x up until
> April 2010. Incidentally, my proposal to do a maintenance release for
> up to 6 months coincide with the release schedule of Ubuntu, and I
> personally think that's a good way to do it.

What does this mean? Are you going to make binaries and source tarballs
that contain only bug fixes, and make it so people can "sage -upgrade"
to get them? I'm curious.

> Thinking about this task of doing maintenance releases a bit more,
> perhaps it's a good idea to do the same thing for the Debian port of
> Sage. I have thought about volunteering my time to work on both the
> maintenance releases as well as on updating the Debian port. But while
> I have some experience with release management within the Sage
> project, I have absolutely no experience at all with maintaining Sage
> or any other project for Debian or Ubuntu. I think that if one is to
> become a maintainer of a Debian package, then one needs to have the
> endorsement of an existing Debian maintainer. In the past, Tim Abbott
> has expressed an interest in helping anyone who would like to help
> maintain the Debian port of Sage. But I'm not sure how much time he
> has to devote to this, considering that I'm a complete newbie with
> respect to maintaining Debian packages.

Please, please, whoever does this, I implore you to first cut your
teeth by making a monolithic unofficial Sage deb that installs into
/opt (say)! This is a a billion times easier than doing what Tim
Abbott did, and yet will be incredibly useful to a lot of people at
the same time. And it definitely does add significant value over the
Sage tarballs we currently distribute, since the Debian build and
dependency system is quite sophisticated.

>
>
>> Release notes, binaries, the above being posted online, etc., will
>> follow in due course.
>

> I think I can resume the task of writing release tours, at least for
> Sage 4.2.1. I'll start on it today.

Thanks!

William

[Harald Schilly]

On Nov 15, 12:58 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... a monolithic unofficial Sage deb that installs into
> /opt (say)!  

I have no experience with deb, but recently read a bit about it. I'll
try to look into it. Best would be a simple script that transforms a
ubuntu binary install directly into a deb.

BTW: i'm distributing the new tar to the mirrors.

H

[Harald Schilly]

On Nov 14, 7:35 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mike Hansen and I have finished sage-4.2.1:

Ok, some mirrors are already synced.
Please use one of them
http://sagemath.org/download-source.html

Best download experience with metalinks and a download manager. In
linux, install "aria2" and then do
aria2c http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/src/meta/sage-4.2.1.tar.metalink

H

[Nicolas M. Thiery]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:35:28AM -0800, William Stein wrote:
> Mike Hansen and I have finished sage-4.2.1:
>
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/farm/src/sage-4.2.1.tar
>
> Release notes, binaries, the above being posted online, etc., will
> follow in due course.

Thanks!

sage -clone is hanging during the call to Sphinx on my ubuntu 9.4 box,
whereas it worked fine with 4.2.1 alpha0. Anyone else encountering this?

The attached log was generated with:

zephyr-/opt/sage-4.2.1> ./sage -clone truc 2>&1 | tee blog

Of course, this impacts sage -combinat install.

Cheers,
Nicolas
--
Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nth...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

[kcrisman]

Just FYI, upgrade from alpha0 succeeded on Intel Mac OS X 10.5, but
Maxima will not start. Everything else seems normal. There were also
a few uncommitted changes in English docs about introspection.

- kcrisman

[kcrisman]

Continued...

with message:

Internal or unrecoverable error in:
not a lisp data object
[2: No such file or directory]
/Users/.../sage-4.2.1/local/bin/sage-sage: line 324: 77649 Abort
trap maxima "$@"

[William Stein]

Is this intel? What happens if you do a clean build? If that works,
can you post a binary, since we have binaries for most everything
*except intel 10.5*, and Nick Alexander really wants such a binary.

William

[kcrisman]

On Nov 16, 11:36 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:16 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI, upgrade from alpha0 succeeded on Intel Mac OS X 10.5, but
> > Maxima will not start.  Everything else seems normal.  There were also
> > a few uncommitted changes in English docs about introspection.
>
> Is this intel?  What happens if you do a clean build?  If that works,
> can you post a binary, since we have binaries for most everything
> *except intel 10.5*, and Nick Alexander really wants such a binary.
>

Yes, but this will take a few hours. Currently at linbox. I sure
hope it will work!

- kcrisman

[kcrisman]

Builds and works fine from source. There are as usual a number of
errors (none fatal) in building docs. DeprecationErrors, Content
Block expected, document isn't included in any toctree, etc.

>
> > Is this intel?  What happens if you do a clean build?  If that works,
> > can you post a binary, since we have binaries for most everything
> > *except intel 10.5*, and Nick Alexander really wants such a binary.
>
> Yes, but this will take a few hours.  Currently at linbox.  I sure
> hope it will work!
>

It's ready, but the connection here won't upload it in fewer than
double-digit hours, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

- kcrisman

[Harald Schilly]

On Nov 14, 7:35 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike Hansen and I have finished sage-4.2.1:

Hi all, binaries are propagating to the mirrors, everything look good,
will just take about 1 day to sync and virtualbox image comes later.
The only thing that's missing is the changelog file. Last time I got
it from Karl-Dieter, who does it this time? ... or am I missing
something obvious?

greetings h

[Harald Schilly]

On Nov 17, 2:54 pm, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... changelog file.

it's in the works.

[William Stein]

2009/11/16 kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com>:

I had exactly the same problem on my laptop. A workaround is to rebuild Maxima:

sage -f maxima-5.19.1.p0

Then it works:

flat:standard wstein$ sage -maxima
;;; Loading #P"/Users/wstein/s/local/lib/ecl/DEFSYSTEM.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/Users/wstein/s/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/Users/wstein/s/local/lib/ecl/sysfun.lsp"
Maxima 5.19.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp ECL 9.10.2
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.

...
sage: solve(x^3+17==0,x)
[x == 1/2*I*(-1)^(1/3)*sqrt(3)*17^(1/3) - 1/2*(-1)^(1/3)*17^(1/3), x
== -1/2*I*(-1)^(1/3)*sqrt(3)*17^(1/3) - 1/2*(-1)^(1/3)*17^(1/3), x ==
(-1)^(1/3)*17^(1/3)]

---

Since the upgrade *does* rebuild Maxima, there's nothing I can think
of to do about this... It's probably some weird 10.6 bug.

William

[kcrisman]

>
> Since the upgrade *does* rebuild Maxima, there's nothing I can think
> of to do about this...  It's probably some weird 10.6 bug.
>

I thought of this solution later, but by then I already had a new
build :)

But it's not 10.6, because I have 10.5. Maybe it was related to the
ECL upgrade - a new Ecl wouldn't do Maxima right on OSX?

- kcrisman