Hi Martin, Bill: Thanks for these very interesting emails! Some of my reactions are below.
- David Joyner On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, > > I think discussing things like off the email lists does more damage to > the community then it would if you were to be more public about these > opinions. Are far as I am concerned, you have nothing to fear from > exploring these ideas and other people might benefit greatly by your > experience. > > Sage is not going away (It should not go away!) and I think the Axiom > community needs to deal with how it should interact with Sage in the > future. > > Regards, > Bill Page. > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have the guts to send this to a public mailing list. I probably > > should. If you want to, you have my permission. > > > > > > "Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Axiom is so huge, so if Sage would be a part of Axiom that just > handles > > > > the web interface, why not? > > > > > > If you think Axiom is huge, then you need to look at Sage. It is ~10x > Axiom. > > > And in the other hand Axiom making a standard package will not happen. > There > > > are discussions on their list to remove lisp and maxima. IMHO, I don't think removing lisp or maxima will happen anytime soon. Lots of topics are open for discussion on the sage-devel list, and William Stein of course makes the final decision, but I've not heard any specific plans for that. On the other hand, I think a lot of people would be very happy if SymPy could, as if by magic, implement all the functionality of Maxima and Axiom overnight:-) > > > > That's bad news, at least for me. I was hoping a lot that Axiom could be > > merged into Sage at some point, in some way. After all, Axiom does have > some > > interesting and huge packages, like the integration stuff. But maybe I'm > > mistaken. > > > > It seems that Sage is going to connect with OLPC. If all those kids do > their > > math using Sage, I think there is no way around Sage anymore. Sage can > already > > do many many things better than Axiom, I suppose, so we need really good > > reasons to continue with Axiom, I think. Maybe I should just redo the > guessing > > package in Python and be done with it? Some time ago I said that I'll > quit I think that would be awesome!! > > Axiom if there are less than twenty contributors by the end of 2008. > However, > > it seems to me that the number of algebra contributors actually went down! > > > > I'd really like to hear some comments on the general plan. Do you think > it's > > feasible to > > > > a) attract other people, not working on Sage > > b) merge our community into the Sage community I personally like this idea very much, but don't have any ideas for how this would evolve. Again, it depends on what William Stein thinks about it. Maybe eventually a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list could be formed? If I can help in some small way, please let me know. > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
