On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:00 PM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > >> How hard will porting code be? How much different is the interface >> that Volker ended up developing for libGAP? >> > > Porting my fpgroups code was pretty much straightforward. It is > (almost) a mechanical work... but a work that has to be done. I am not > sure if it is automatic enough to be done by a script. What i did is > to change by hand all the definitions of the gap objects i use. After > that, it is a matter of tuning stuff like opening and closing > brackets, quotes and so on. > > To give you an idea: my poroject is about 2000 lines of code, a big > part of it dealing with the gap interface. I don't remember exactly > how much time it took to port itby hand it to the libgap interface; > but i am sure i did it in less than a day.
I wrote the first version of libGAP at the Barcelona Sage days a few years, and at that time I had planned it to basically be a drop-in replacement for the pexpect interface. Did the design diverge a lot from that? William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > 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. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
