> We managed to get one gsoc project that does the assumptions right, so > it may happen anyways over the summer, in fact I very much hope so. >
How does assumptions affect this? If that's so important, you should probably get a lot of focus on that! But consider also PDE important ;) > > We'll see. We managed to get 5 gsoc student this summer, so we are not > at all dead, if this is what you mean. :) > That's definitely a very good thing, especially in getting people involved with development... Probably the best result is not just their short term, but also the chance of some long term commitment of good people. > Besides, it will take almost a year to Sage too to release the new > symbolics (started August 2008), so I don't think we are doing that > bad. > Also in terms of developers working just on symbolics, I think sympy > has much more developers. I don't know if it's easy to extract just > patches to Sage symbolics, to compare speeds of developments, but I > would not be surprised if it turns out it's actually very comparable, > or even less people are working on Sage symbolics than on sympy. > That's a very good point. In my opinion, SAGE community is very good, and vast, and very well driven, but its focus it's actually quite far from symbolics (there's nothing bad about it), so I can see that for the time being, SymPy has some more inertia, thanks to the higher number of developers committed to symbolics (of course) rather than SAGE. At the same time, I think that SAGE can make a big step forward, once its community focuses on this task! Thanks a lot Maurizio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
