Hi sage-devel, I'm trying to get ready for Sage Days 14, and given the focus of the workshop some natural questions that occur to me (and are bound to be asked) are:
(1) What is the current relationship between Macaulay2 and Sage? (2) Could we eventually make Macaulay2 a standard package? How about an optional package? (I could have sworn there used to be an optional package once.) (3) What are the obstacles to 2 happening? How hard would it be to overcome them? I'm hoping to come back from SD14 with a lot of ideas for features for algebraic geometry, and I know that a lot of things can be done with Macaulay2. So I'd like to know whether the focus should be on trying to get Macaulay2 integrated in Sage, or to develop this stuff natively in Sage using Macaulay2 as a cheat sheet (= porting functionality to Sage bit by bit, I guess is what I'm saying). I'm sure these issues have come up before, but I couldn't find any traces on sage-devel or sage-support. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
