On Sep 3, 2:37 am, "Johannes Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Sage developers,
Hi Johannes,
> I am one of the developers of the Python package SciTools
> (http://scitools.googlecode.com) and for some time I have seen that
> there is a package for SciTools in the experimental section in Sage.
> The package is called scitools++ and it includes not only SciTools,
> but also packages like doconce, epydoc, Gnuplot, IPython, Pmw,
> preprocess.py, and Scientific Python. For a couple of days ago I
> decided to try it out, however, it didn't work very well. I think
> there was a problem with IPython. I'm not sure who created the
> package, but I think there should be a separate package for SciTools
> that doesn't install all the other packages. I have therefore created
> a new SciTools package for Sage, called scitools-0.4.spkg. The package
> depends on Gnuplot.py 1.8 and I have created a Sage package for this
> as well. Both packages can be downloaded fromhttp://folk.uio.no/johannr/tmp/.
> It would be very nice if SciTools
> was included into Sage, perhaps in the experimental section for now. I
> think the scitools++ package can be removed.
I will check out the spkgs and get them reviewed. It might take a day
or two, so please ping us if nothing happens.
In general we have moved away from gnuplot due to its non-GPL
compatible license. We have discussed creating a non-free section for
spkgs due to code like gnuplot.
> Thanks,
> Johannes Ring
Cheers,
Michael
> P.S. For those that don't know about SciTools, it's a Python package
> with lots of useful tools for scientific computing and it is built on
> top of other Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, and Scientific Python.
> SciTools also includes a plotting interface called Easyviz
> (http://code.google.com/p/scitools/wiki/EasyvizDocumentation), which
> is a unified interface to other plotting packages like Gnuplot,
> Matplotlib, VTK, and several others. It can do both curve plots and
> more advanced 2D/3D visualization of scalar and vector fields and it
> has simple, Matlab-like syntax.
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