In an unexpected flurry of activity, thanks to JP, the maxima library interface has developed surprisingly well. There is a whole stack of patches and dependencies on http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7377 which enables the use of maxima as a library for calculus purposes. Built on 4.6.2.alpha4, there is only one real doctest failure - a pickling problem (there are other failures but those are just a matter of updating the expected output).
Given that the change is a rather invasive one, I'd expect issues to arise independent of doctests. So: - this might be a good time for symbolic and calculus people to start looking at this change and comment on its design and point out issues, and help solve them - the help from someone familiar with the pickling machinery in diagnosing the problem in the one remaining test would by highly appreciated - the invasiveness of the patches means that they rot rather quickly, so it would be nice if we could use the present momentum to actually push this to completion rather than let it slip for another year again. There is a copy of 4.6.2.alpha4+patches on http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/nbruin/4.6.2.alpha4/ (symlink to scratch) if people want to test it quickly. -- 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
