Hi, Thank you Nils for the great work on the library interface to maxima.
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:55:40 -0700 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Nils Bruin<nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > For other people interested in maxima-as-a-library: I personally > > don't have a clue what the right way forward is from here. What > > functionality do we need from maxima? Is a minimal functionality > > library the right way to go, a la the "myint" example above? Or > > would we be served with a fully functional > > MaximaSymbolicRing, where one can simply coerce between SR and > > MaximaSymbolicRing, whenever one needs functionality available in > > Maxima/PyNaC but not in PyNaC/Maxima. I think this project at this > > point really needs input from someone familiar with Sage's > > symbolics. (I personally don't have a use for them). A python interface to maxima (MaximaSymbolicRing) would be totally awesome. Though this would be a lot of work and I don't think it is required for the interface between Sage and Maxima. > You're right. We should make a list of everything Maxima does for our > basic symbolic manipulation that would be a lot of work to simply > rewrite in PyNaC. I had started such a list here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/symbolics AFAIK, we rely on maxima for the items up to orthogonal polynomials on that list. It would be great if we could call maxima like a library for these operations. To make the requirements from the library more concrete, we could start a new wiki page listing specific calls to maxima we want to transfer to the library interface. Thanks. Cheers, Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
