On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, gsw<georgswe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On 17 Jul., 00:36, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> That said, I *do* think it is a good idea to considering getting >> Frobby into standard Sage, simply because it provides much new >> optimized functionality. That said -- I want to ask a question of >> people who are voting +1 to this proposal: have you ever used Frobby's >> capabilities? Do you expect to ever use them? Do you know people who >> will? >> >> > > Hi William, > let me answer these questions of yours. > I didn't use yet the functionality Frobby provides, apart from "toying > a bit around", and I do not expect to use it seriously (although in > number theory, one never knows ...). I also know only Bjarke (the
I think there are almost no current Sage users that would use the functionality of Frobby. However, my grad school roommate (Ezra Miller) did a Ph.D. on Alexander duality for monomial ideals (something very much related to Frobby), so I learned a bit about it, and that there is a whole community for which this sort of computational capability is very important. This community has not switched over to Sage yet, but getting Frobby into Sage is a very good step in the right direction to making Sage more useful to them. So I vote +1 to inclusion of Frobby in Sage, modulo having the issues that have been discussed in this thread being sorted out (e.g., Solaris support). -- William > author) himself as a one to use it. That said, I still vote +1! Bjarke > has made a very good case w.r.t. the functionality in light of the > "inclusion procedure" noted somewhere (in the Wiki? on the Web site? > in the docu? I always mix these up.). And "formally", he's gone more > than 90% of the way, and has a good pace. > What is more, I see the "Frobby migrates to Sage" story as a success > story, both the Frobby project and the Sage project might be proud of. > > Cheers, > Georg > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
