That's exactly the sort of use which I had in mind. There is a possible danger that if lots of papers cite Sage for the computations (which of course we hope they will do), when the "hard" part of the computation was done in one of the component packages, then the writers of that package might feel that Sage is getting the credit for "their" work.
Please don't think I am just saying this to get more citations for mwrank! It's a genuine and more general point. John On 01/11/2007, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Cremona wrote: > > This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I think it would be > > useful (or at least interesting) if setting some global flag would > > cause Sage to report which external (or internal 3rd party) packages > > were used in reaching a result. But perhaps that is unrealistic since > > a long computation might use lots of different ingredients, and seeing > > list of them at the end would not tell you who had done which bits. > > > > Something like this could help a person cite the programs and/or authors > that they used, as is encouraged by SAGE (as noted on the citation page, > which I can never find---is it linked to from the home page?). As it is > now, it takes quite a big of digging into the source code and guessing > to figure out who's responsible for the code that you used. > > -Jason > > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
