> This was definitely very true a year ago.  Did you get any sense that
> this had changed when you were at the scipy conference?  Last year
> when I was at that conference, there was a lot of talk about improving
> matplotlib, but I don't know whether anything came of it in the last year,
> perhaps because VTK/mayavi meets a lot of people's needs for
> 3d plotting in python.

mayavi2 is alive and in development, but I think the matplotlib and 3D
hasn't improved much.

> If SAGElite is just the non-math parts of SAGE, then it won't be
> very much work, since that work is already mostly done.  In fact,
> it's likely that it will make for *less* work for SAGE, because people
> who are very good at programming will use SAGElite (for the GUI
> interface to Python or program XXX or something, say), and will
> contribute back improvements.

OK, that makes sense. The parts, like DSAGE and notebook should be
packaged as individual packages. This will be useful for packaging
SAGE in Debian in the future.

If we manage to integrate sympy well in SAGE, than I would be much
more motivated to create a proper SAGE packages in Debian. :) I think
it's very important to have Debian and thus Ubuntu packages - I just
read a recent survey [1], that Debian+Ubuntu use 44% of people using
linux on desktops.

Ondrej

[1] http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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/
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to