On 8/20/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thoughts? Basically, the initial point of this is that if somebody
> > wants to use
> > SAGE just to talk with mathematica, or just for the notebook then they
> > can trivially do so. If they need serious math functionality, they
> > have to install
> > something more. In the long run though, with help from Sympy, this could
> > have a feel very much like SAGE, but without all the serious mathematical
> > functionality -- but still enough for some users.
>
> I envision a maintenance nightmare. Does function 'xy' depend on anything
> outside of Python? Can you even unbundle the stuff that far without big
> hassles (e.g., the SINGULAR interfaces converts to SAGE MPolynomials)? I
> really like the comes-with-batteries-included approach of SAGE.
Don't worry! It's definitely not a maintenance nightmare. The first version,
which I have in mind, is already mostly done! The interesting thing is
that the notebook and interfaces don't depend on anything in the sage math
library. So all I have to do is create another setuplite.py (based on
setup.py),
and just do
python setuplite.py sdist
then install that in another python and test it. Otherwise, everything seems
very similar to before.
It's not a maintenance nightmare *unless* we actually start providing some math
functionality. Then it is harder, but doctesting, etc. should help.
-- William
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