Sage Days 32 High Priority Wishlist

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Super-duper High Priority

• #8254 #11040 #11043 faster startup time; see also the Sage forker, and see this article

• #11705 Port Sage to Power 7 (ppc64) -- there is a machine "silius" on skynet that should be used for this. Only problem is building Maxima...

High Priority

• Upgrade MPIR (#8664, #11616), MPFR (#11666), MPFI to latest stable releases

• #5847 Update GMP-ECM to 6.3

• #11351 make flintqs-20070817 spkg build with -m64 rather than

• latest jmol source (also #9238)

• #6329 optional doctest failure -- breakage in the sage<-->magma

• #10975 creation of certain prime finite fields is double dog slow

Medium Priority

• #10826, #10827, #10828, #11197 SAGE_SPKG_INSTALL_DOCS

• #10152 #10973 integral points

• #9668 Fix hardcoding of paths in R binary

• #11710 Experimental package Macaulay2 fails to build (also #10117)

• #10976 computing order of subgroup of a permutation group is slow

• #10801 Create a new option: "sage -strip"

• #8783 frobby optional spkg doesn't build with newer GCC's

• #11427 optional spkg database_gap-4.4.12.p0.spkg fails test

• #11433 optional spkg graphviz-2.16.1.p0.spkg fails to build

• #11438 optional package libtheora-1.1.1.spkg does not build

• #11439 optional package mpi4py-1.1.0.spkg does not build

• #11444 optional package cbc-2.3.p2.spkg does not build

• #10981 algebraic real field partial_fraction_decomposition bug

• #7879 Remove unnecessary signal handling for low prec mpfr operations

• #8896 0.0000000000000000000000000000 is parsed completely differently

• #10635 refactor polynomial_element.pyx factor function

• #4949 Optionally build spkgs in $SAGE_BUILD_TMPDIR

• #10970 Remove pipestatus from spkg/install

• #10271 Make big_oh notation work for any element that has degree()

• #5903 Remove dist directories from Sage distribution

• #10231 Don't repackage examples and extcode on sage-*dist

• #10952 better numerical accuracy testing (in-progress, Beezer)

• #6284 fix the numerous broken optional magma doctests

• #8469 add "Number Theory and the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem" (review in-progress, Beezer)

• #9487 Have an acurate description of what "supported platforms" are

• #9494 Add a doctest to benchmark.py (in-progress, Beezer)

• #10910 Avoid nfinit while factoring polynomials

• #10951 ecmfactor should take as optional argument the sigma value

• #5187 fix optional magma doctests that changed in magma-2.15

• #6315 optional doctest failure -- caused by mistakes in lectures

• #11421 upgrade optional package NZMATH to version 1.1.0

• #7344 New libjpeg package

• #7345 New libtiff package

• #9975 Update GnuTLS and clean up the package

• #11354 remove dist directory from eclib spkg

• #11169 Make testcc.sh exit with an exit code of 1 if attempting

• #8321 numerical integration with arbitrary precision

• #11036 improve solve_mod performance

• #6495 build reference manual more quickly

• #7494 remove/move the examples directory stuff already

• #6743 make more progress on making Sage build automatically on Cygwin

• #4260 use LinBox as native matrix representation for dense matrices over GF(p)

• #9562 add M4RIE to Sage (== fast linear algebra over GF(2^n) for n in 2..10

• #11574 update M4RI

Lower Priority (not from sponsor)

• #11680 support extra_compile_args (e.g., C99) when loading/attaching .pyx (cython) files, and when using %cython in the notebook

• #11712 Make it so typing cython? results in one seeing documentation for all pragma's for %cython mode and load/attach .pyx file