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[bug#56729,RFC,00/10] Add sagemath.

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vicvbcun July 23, 2022, 7:59 p.m. UTC
Hello Guix!

This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.

vicvbcun (10):
  gnu: edge-addition-planarity-suite: Update to 3.0.2.0.
  gnu: gap: Update to 4.11.1.
  gnu: Remove ecl-16.
  gnu: cliquer: Update to 1.22.
  gnu: lcalc: Update to 2.0.5.
  gnu: ntl: Update to 11.5.1.
  gnu: eclib: Update to 20220621.
  gnu: Add python-memory-allocator.
  gnu: Add python-pplpy.
  gnu: Add sagemath.

 gnu/local.mk                                  |   4 -
 gnu/packages/algebra.scm                      |  19 +-
 gnu/packages/graph.scm                        |   4 +-
 .../patches/lcalc-default-parameters-1.patch  |  26 --
 .../patches/lcalc-default-parameters-2.patch  |  58 ----
 gnu/packages/patches/lcalc-lcommon-h.patch    |  13 -
 .../patches/lcalc-using-namespace-std.patch   |  43 ---
 gnu/packages/sagemath.scm                     | 267 ++++++++++++------
 8 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/lcalc-default-parameters-1.patch
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/lcalc-default-parameters-2.patch
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/lcalc-lcommon-h.patch
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/lcalc-using-namespace-std.patch


base-commit: f6904c0b19c2fcca41bbf1400c738bd833fec9a8

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Ludovic Courtès Aug. 1, 2022, 9:24 a.m. UTC | #1
Hello!

vicvbcun <guix@ikherbers.com> skribis:

> This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.

This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
package.

WDYT?

Regarding SageMath, my understanding is that it bundles lots of things.
In Guix, we’d like to make sure we do not use the bundled packages,
unless we practically can’t avoid it.  To do that, the best option is to
remove “third-party” (or similar) directories right in the ‘snippet’ of
the ‘sagemath’ package.  Could you give that a try?

Then, as you note, we’d rather run tests to make sure the package works
as intended.

Cc’ing Andreas, who I think is quite familiar with Sage.

Ludo’.
vicvbcun Aug. 3, 2022, 9:21 a.m. UTC | #2
Hello,

On 2022-08-01T11:24:31+0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> > Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> > far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> > to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.
> 
> This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
> apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
> you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
> package.
> 
> WDYT?
Sounds like a good idea. The updates all seem fine to me (except gap)
and other than perhaps a better description for python-memory-allocator
I don't think there is much left to do for the other ones.

As for gap, I took another stab at it and it now builds reproducibly for
me. I also removed all the trailing #t's and changed the phases to use a
gexp.
By the way, the gap definition contains a snippet that deletes many gap
packages over concerns due to missing explicit licenses. However in a
cursory look at the tarball, I can see many LICENSE/COPYING files so
that may have changed.

> Regarding SageMath, my understanding is that it bundles lots of things.
> In Guix, we’d like to make sure we do not use the bundled packages,
> unless we practically can’t avoid it.  To do that, the best option is to
> remove “third-party” (or similar) directories right in the ‘snippet’ of
> the ‘sagemath’ package.  Could you give that a try?
If I understand the Sage build system correctly, missing dependencies
are automatically retrieved and build only when using the provided
Makefile. As is, the package definition builds and installs only the
python library part using setup.py. Thus a missing dependency probably
leads to a runtime error, though I haven't checked this.

> Then, as you note, we’d rather run tests to make sure the package works
> as intended.
I will try to see if I can get tests to work, though probably as
separate "package" like nixpkgs does[0], to avoid rebuilding sagemath so
often :).

As for sagemath itself, I will have a look at what exactly we need in
bin/.

[0]:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/science/math/sage/sage-tests.nix
vicvbcun Aug. 6, 2022, 1:28 a.m. UTC | #3
On 2022-07-23T21:59:07+0200, vicvbcun wrote:
> Everything compiles just fine and even the Jupyter notebook interface
> works, [...]
Well, I spoke to soon. As it turns out, the `sage' command I invoked to
test things a bit wound up using the sage installed by pacman, so no
wonder it worked perfectly. Nonetheless, I got some things working in a
guix shell container (so hopefully this wont happen again) with the help
of wrap-program and a few more dependencies.

I will try to post something that actually works a bit soon.
Andreas Enge Aug. 8, 2022, 2:40 p.m. UTC | #4
Hello,

Am Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 11:24:31AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> > Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> > far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> > to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.
> This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
> apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
> you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
> package.

thanks for letting me know, I will start by having a look at the patches
doing version updates.

Concerning sagemath itself, below is my very old version of an attempt at
packaging the library. Some things look reassuringly similar, my handling
of the number of cores is less nice, but I do delete the bundled packages.

Maybe you could copy useful parts into your recipe?

As for tests, indeed we should drop them for the time being until we have
a working sage package.

Thanks for these efforts!

Andreas



(define-public sage
  (package
    (name "sage")
    (version "8.7")
    (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append
                    "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/misc/sage/src/sage-"
                    version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
                "04l7i29vvxbd276z7hq6lj00ij42iy05pj7x765f0wswjiz0jlax"))
              (modules '((guix build utils)))
              (snippet '(begin (delete-file-recursively "upstream")
                               (delete-file-recursively ".git")
                               #t))))
    (build-system python-build-system)
    (native-inputs
     `(("cython" ,python-cython)
       ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
       ("python-cysignals" ,python-cysignals)
       ("python-pkgconfig" ,python-pkgconfig)
       ("python-jinja2" ,python-jinja2)))
    (inputs
     `(("arb" ,arb)
       ("boost" ,boost)
       ("brial" ,brial)
       ("cliquer" ,cliquer)
       ("ecl" ,ecl)
       ("eclib" ,eclib)
       ("gmp-ecm" ,gmp-ecm)
       ("edge-addition-planarity-suite" ,edge-addition-planarity-suite)
       ("fflas-ffpack" ,fflas-ffpack-2.3.2)
       ("flint" ,flint)
       ("gap" ,gap)
       ("gd" ,gd)
       ("gf2x" ,gf2x)
       ("givaro" ,givaro-4.0.4)
       ("glpk" ,glpk)
       ("gmp" ,gmp)
       ("gsl" ,gsl)
       ("iml" ,iml)
       ("lcalc" ,lcalc)
       ("libbraiding" ,libbraiding)
       ("libgc" ,libgc)
       ("libhomfly" ,libhomfly)
       ("linbox" ,linbox-1.5.2)
       ("lrcalc" ,lrcalc)
       ("m4ri" ,m4ri)
       ("m4rie" ,m4rie)
       ("mpc" ,mpc)
       ("mpfr" ,mpfi)
       ("ntl" ,ntl)
       ("pari-gp" ,pari-gp)
       ("ppl" ,ppl)
       ("pynac" ,pynac)
       ("python-cypari2" ,python-cypari2)
       ("python-gmpy2" ,python-gmpy2)
       ("python-numpy" ,python-numpy)
       ("python-six" ,python-six)
       ("ratpoints" ,ratpoints)
       ("readline" ,readline)
       ("rw" ,rw)
       ("singular" ,singular)
       ("symmetrica" ,symmetrica)
       ("zlib" ,zlib)
       ("zn-poly" ,zn-poly)))
    (arguments
     `(#:tests? #f ; a test since this phase fails with an error in setup.py
       #:use-setuptools? #f ; otherwise setup.py complains about
                            ; --single-version-externally-managed
       #:phases
       (modify-phases %standard-phases
         (add-before 'build 'setup
           (lambda _
             (setenv "SAGE_ROOT" (getcwd))
             (setenv "SAGE_LOCAL" (getcwd))
             (setenv "SAGE_SHARE" (string-append (getcwd) "/share"))
             (setenv "PATH" (string-append (getcwd) "/build/bin:"
                            (getcwd) "/src/bin:"
                            (getenv "PATH")))
             (setenv "SAGE_NUM_THREADS" "32") ; arbitrary number, 32 cores
                                              ; on bayfront
             (mkdir-p "var/lib/sage/installed")
             (mkdir-p (string-append (getcwd)
                                     "/share/sage/ext/notebook-ipython"))
             (chdir "src")
             #t))
         (add-after 'install 'save-space
           ;; The Nix package deletes a directory with over 100MB, which
           ;; apparently is not needed. Let us do the same.
           (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
             (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                    (python (assoc-ref inputs "python"))
                    (python-version
                      ((@@ (guix build python-build-system)
                           get-python-version) python))
                    (site (string-append out "/lib/python"
                                         python-version
                                         "/site-packages"))
                    (directory (string-append site "/sage/cython_debug")))
               (delete-file-recursively directory))
             #t)))))
    (synopsis "SageMath computer algebra system")
    (description
     "SageMath is a mathematics software built on top of many existing
packages such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT,
R and others. Their combined power may be accessed through a common,
Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.")
    ;; documentation under cc-by-sa3.0, bundled packages under various
    ;; other licenses, see COPYING.txt in the distribution
    (license license:gpl3)
    (home-page "https://www.sagemath.org/")))
vicvbcun Aug. 8, 2022, 4:20 p.m. UTC | #5
Hello,

On 2022-08-08T16:40:37+0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 11:24:31AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > > This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> > > Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> > > far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> > > to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.
> > This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
> > apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
> > you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
> > package.
> 
> thanks for letting me know, I will start by having a look at the patches
> doing version updates.
Great! But note that I just sent an updated series with minor touch ups :).

> Concerning sagemath itself, below is my very old version of an attempt at
> packaging the library. Some things look reassuringly similar, my handling
> of the number of cores is less nice, but I do delete the bundled packages.
The `upstream' directory only seems to exist in the published tarball.
So this should be no problem if we build from git.

> Maybe you could copy useful parts into your recipe?
I'll take a look!

> As for tests, indeed we should drop them for the time being until we have
> a working sage package.
Too late (for the most part) :).
Andreas Enge Aug. 9, 2022, 10:47 a.m. UTC | #6
Hello,

Am Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 06:20:22PM +0200 schrieb guix@ikherbers.com:
> Great! But note that I just sent an updated series with minor touch ups :).

thanks for the update! I just pushed an update of maxima (and wxmaxima), but
without your addition of ecl. Is there a good reason for this? In any case,
this should be done in a separate commit, since it is not required for the
update. For the record, I also tried to compile with gcl, but this still
failed.

> > Concerning sagemath itself, below is my very old version of an attempt at
> > packaging the library. Some things look reassuringly similar, my handling
> > of the number of cores is less nice, but I do delete the bundled packages.
> The `upstream' directory only seems to exist in the published tarball.
> So this should be no problem if we build from git.

Ah, interesting. Which one should we do? I personally tend to prefer tarballs
(as the official distribution mechanism of the project). Recently there has
been a preference in the Guix project for git repositories when autotools
are involved, as they make it possible to recreate the configure scripts
from their source. But since this is not the case here, the argument does
not hold.

Andreas
\( Aug. 9, 2022, 10:55 a.m. UTC | #7
On Tue Aug 9, 2022 at 11:47 AM BST, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Ah, interesting. Which one should we do? I personally tend to prefer tarballs
> (as the official distribution mechanism of the project). Recently there has
> been a preference in the Guix project for git repositories when autotools
> are involved, as they make it possible to recreate the configure scripts
> from their source. But since this is not the case here, the argument does
> not hold.

I think it does sometimes hold even for projects that don't use autotools,
especially older ones: they sometimes work under the assumption that users
do not generally care about generated files in their release source, but
don't want to put generated files in their development repository.

This, of course, is why the autotools generated files problem exists in the
first place; autoconf was, after all, designed so that users didn't have to
have it installed to build a package, in a world where compiling from release
tarballs was the usual way to get new software.

    -- (
Andreas Enge Aug. 9, 2022, 12:19 p.m. UTC | #8
I pushed your patch updating cddlib with a small change to include the
version number in the docdir, so that it coincides with the place where the
GNU build system stores the COPYING file.

Thanks,

Andreas
M Aug. 9, 2022, 9:32 p.m. UTC | #9
On 09-08-2022 12:47, Andreas Enge wrote:
> [...] Recently there has
> been a preference in the Guix project for git repositories when autotools
> are involved, as they make it possible to recreate the configure scripts
> from their source. But since this is not the case here, the argument does
> not hold.
I am not aware of such a preference, do you have a source?

Switching to git repositories in one method to build from source, but 
there exist other methods too that keep the official distribution 
method, e.g. (for-each delete-file '("configure" ...)) in a snippet. 
It's a method to a goal, but not a goal on itself as far as I'm aware.

Greetings,
Maxime.
Andreas Enge Aug. 10, 2022, 8:26 a.m. UTC | #10
Am Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 11:32:56PM +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> I am not aware of such a preference, do you have a source?

No, it was just an impression I got from discussions on the mailing list.
So I am unsure if there is an official position, and do not know what
to do here...

Andreas
Andreas Enge Aug. 10, 2022, 9:03 a.m. UTC | #11
Hello,

I just pushed your update to python-sympy, after trying to recompile all its
dependents and verifying that they mostly do not become broken.

Andreas
Andreas Enge Aug. 11, 2022, 6:05 p.m. UTC | #12
Hello,

Am Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:21:43AM +0200 schrieb guix@ikherbers.com:
> As for gap, I took another stab at it and it now builds reproducibly for
> me. I also removed all the trailing #t's and changed the phases to use a
> gexp.

today I looked at gap. Since there were many whitespace changes, I found
it a bit difficult to review, and copied only the most relevant/easiest
parts of your commit. In particular I did not move to gexps, which could
be done in a separate patch. So far I also did not apply the part for
making the build reproducible, which could be done in yet another patch.

> By the way, the gap definition contains a snippet that deletes many gap
> packages over concerns due to missing explicit licenses. However in a
> cursory look at the tarball, I can see many LICENSE/COPYING files so
> that may have changed.

Yes, there is an ongoing effort in GAP to clarify the license situation,
with apparently a lot of progress in this release. I have added (hopefully)
all packages with a free license and which do not require additional inputs.

We could go further; for instance add ZeroQMInterface (which requires
zeromq) and dependent packages, CddInterface (which I suppose requires
cddlib) and then NConvex, but I am a bit weary of adding dependencies,
even more so since we do not seem to have GAP users in Guix who could
give us feedback. It would be more motivating with users who confirm that
the packages do not only load, but actually work as expected...

Andreas
Sharlatan Hellseher Oct. 24, 2024, 6:04 p.m. UTC | #13
Hi

I've checked, build and pushed 8 packages to master from
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70924.

Let's refresh this series as well and maybe we may pack just new
not-dependent packages out from "v3 32" series?

--
Thanks,
Oleg