On 18 May 2009, at 09:40, mabshoff wrote: > On May 18, 6:37 am, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On May 18, 6:17 am, Kevin Horton <khorto...@rogers.com> wrote: >> >>> On 18 May 2009, at 02:02, William Stein wrote: >> >> <SNIP> >> >>> 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? > > I guess the following answer isn't really useful. Need to find some > coffee :) > >> Yes. > > I meant to say: Yes, they should be usable as-is. That is the whole > point of cooperating between Sage and SPD.
If Sage and SPD are so closely related, and must remain so for each project to achieve its long term goals, it isn't clear to me why they are two separate projects. If I understand properly (and maybe I don't, as I haven't yet found a clear description of exactly what SPD is), SPD essentially is Sage, but without requiring the automatic building and installation of the many dozens of packages that Sage needs to provide its desired long list of capabilities. If my understanding is correct, could the purpose of the SPD project be achieved by having a "minimal" target in the Sage makefile? One would do "make minimal", and get something that looks like the current SPD? One would then install the specific packages needed to provide one's needed capabilities. I'm interested in SPD because my needs are more on the numerical side, for data analysis plus plotting, with the notebook to record and report results. I don't need the symbolic side of things. Sage does what I need, but at the expense of installing a large number of packages I will never use. This is not a problem on my desktop computer, but it is a concern on the ancient laptop computer that I travel with. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
