On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rjf<fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In terms of support, one major disadvantage of Sage, I think, is that >> significant pieces of the implementation apparently consists of pieces >> of code that are used as black boxes, and that the Sagemeisters >> proudly disavow knowledge of. Thus a bug traced to Maxima is >> unfixable "until we rewrite Maxima in python". >> >> This effectively vitiates any advantage that might be obtained by the >> fact that these black boxes might be open source, or GPL, or portable. > > There is precisely one component of Sage that has the above property, > and that is Maxima. There are absolutely no other such components. > Fortunately this won't be the case forever. >
I have to post and just say that I am just plain wrong here. There is no question that Robert Dodier should be counted among the Sage developers (he's participated in one Sage Days and regularly posts on the Sage lists), so clearly my statements about Maxima being unfixable/incomprehensible to Sage developers is completely and totally wrong. And actually the bugs we find in Maxima get regularly fixed by Robert Dodier and other Maxima developers. So I was wrong. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
