I definitely think it's a good idea, because SAGE (or at least SAGElite) should be just like any other package - it should install in a standard way, there should be a regular Debian/Ubuntu package etc. and it should compete with all the other opensource programs in Debian main.
Matplotlib is very bad at 3D plotting, but SymPy uses pyglet for plotting, that is pure python and works on Windows, Linux, Max OS X [1]. From the mathematical point of view, the goals of SAGElite are almost identical to SymPy's, but SAGElite will be much more - the notebook, the mathematica/maple/maxima bindings, etc. On the other hand - it's very easy to get something, but to get it right, get it polished, pay attention to all those small details, that will annoy the first user, etc, is very difficult, I can see it with SymPy, so I think it will be quite a lot of work. Ondrej [1] http://code.google.com/p/sympy/wiki/PlottingReport --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
