Hi Michael, On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:59 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
So, how is it going with the review? > 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. Okay, I see. Thanks for considering including SciTools into Sage, Johannes >> 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. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
