On 18 May 2009, at 02:02, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com > > wrote: >> >> On May 17, 11:13 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: >> * at the very end of the presentation there was a discussion about >> numeric stuff. There are tons of computational programs in lots of >> fields (atomic physics, quantum field theory, electromagnetics, >> electronic structure calculations, fluid dynamics, atmospheric >> sciences, nuclear engineering ....) and there is just no way how this >> can all be in Sage. Nevertheless, people would like to teach with it, >> let's say some electrodynamic course, or finite element course, or >> (partial) differential equations course. Sage currently cannot do any >> of that. >> >> Why can't it all be included? At least as optional packages, I can >> imagine having all of that in Sage. It just seems to be a chicken- >> and- >> egg issue to me, we need those features to attract those users, and >> the corresponding users to supply the packages. This is where Matlab >> really has a huge lead, and it will take time to chip away at that. >> But conceptually I don't understand why it couldn't happen. >> > > I agree. We can do anything if we have enough energy, organization, > resources, and work hard enough. > > Having the SPD project build up infrastructure in the numerical > direction is a great way to organize ourselves in order to accomplish > more.
Will packages created for SPD be usable as-is in Sage, or will they need to be tweaked in some way before they can be used with Sage? Will there be some sort of automatic installation of package dependencies? This would seem to be highly desirable. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
