On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is it safe for me to wait until 3.0 before learning what the "new
> coercion model" actually is, or should I do that now if I want any new
> functionality to be merged into 3.0?
Sage 3.0 will be released soon -- hopefully within two weeks. It
will have *none* of "the new coercion model" code in it. Sage 3.0
will be a solid stable release that we will make when we meet
the following goals (which we have been pushing for for months):
* (nearly done) DOCTESTS: Raise the doctest coverage of the Sage
library to 50%.
* (done) INTERACT: Interactive versions of functions in the
notebook; kind of like Mathematica's Manipulate command.
* (nearly done) R: a pexpect R interface
* (status??) TIMING/BENCHMARK: Making it so doctesting Sage also
saves complete timing and profiling information. Start using and
publishing the results of this.
* (nearly done?) PORTING: OSX 10.5 64 bit , FreeBSD, PPC 64 bit
build support out of the box. Experimental 32 bit Solaris 10 build
support
* (nearly done) MODULAR ABELIAN VARIETIES: Implement Stein's
algorithms for computing with modular abelian varieties. This is very
*symbolic*, because Stein started the Sage project in the first place
specifically to implement these algorithms.
So Sage 3.0 is definitely not some sort of nebulous release off
in the distance.
-- William
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