On Dec 29, 12:17 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> The possibility to dump lisp and maxima entirely from Sage keeps
> popping into my head. I would like this thread to be entirely 100%
> about the technical *feasibility* of removing maxima as a standard
> component of Sage. Whether or not this is good/bad/political correct,
> desirable, or undesirable, I hope won't be discussed in *this* thread.
>
> To start this off, in order to remove Maxima, we would have to use
> Pynac (=ginac) (+ more) to at least mostly duplicate the calculus
> functionality that we currently use. Is there anything else we would
> need to do? How feasible is this?
Is this under the assumption that we do not lose functionality, i.e.
integration?
What would be very nice to do would be do actually fill in the missing
bits in the pynac integration (plotting?) and switch over the default
to pynac at SD12.
> I don't mean to suggest this could be trivially done by anybody right
> now. I'm talking about feasibility in the sense of several very hard
> weeks work by one of the top 10 Sage developers.
Assuming we do not lose functionality: I don't think this can be
realistically done until Sympy is "good" enough and that is more than
a couple weeks of work away. To get integration up to speed would
probably take a rather large amount of work and even limits probably
need some more work to components like series expansion and so on IIRC
what Ondrej stated last time I talked to him.
> -- William
Cheers,
Michael
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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