Sage Days 32 High Priority Wishlist
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
#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