On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > Pablo De Napoli wrote: >> It would be really nice if we can include the new weapper for the lcalc >> library. >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5396 >> >> [marked ad "with patch, neeeds review"] >> >> Pablo > > I have been less than impressed with lcalc itself. Of all the packages I have
For balance, I have to comment that I'm more than impressed by what lcalc itself actually *does*. It's by far the world's best program at computing zeros of L-functions (such as the Riemann Zeta function), far surpassing anything available in any other general purpose (or otherwise) math software, as far as I know. It would indeed be very nice to have much more functionality from Lcalc exposed in Sage, so I'm glad for 5396 getting finished, finally! Of course, I'm also glad David pointed out the various quality issues, and hope they can get addressed too. Mike -- maybe you can hire an undergrad CS major using our grant to knock them out? They don't require any real knowledge of math. -- William > met in Sage, it seems to have presented with more than its fair share of > problems. > > * At one point there was a non-portable option to suppress warnings from the > assembler. I fixed that, so it would actually build on Solaris with gcc, with > either the Sun or GNU assembler. > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6609 > > * I note it used the -no-deprecated (or similar option) to hide the fact the > code is deprecated. > > * It will not build on Solaris with the Sun compiler > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7065 > > * It will not build on HP-UX with gcc > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7178 > > * If you run 'lint' on the sources, one find numerous variables that are > declared but never used. > > IMHO, lcalc needs a major overhall. > > I always find it worrying when the source is deprecated, efforts are made to > suppress warnings, it is not portable, variables are unused ...It always makes > me wonder what other issues might exist, which I do not know about. > > > Dave > > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
