On Sunday, September 27, 2015, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Though I think the growth/survival of the SageMath project is in serious > > jeopardy due to lack of funding, I for one am definitely not giving up. > The > > activity is not doomed. If anything the only thing to do is try much > > harder, try a wider range of approaches to getting support, be more open > > minded, etc. Also the recent success of many sage devs in getting the $8m > > OpenDreamKit grant is very inspiring! As are the 161 paying customers of > > SageMathCloud. And the innovations like Bill Hart's Nemo project. Long > > live open source mah software, starting long ago with Maxima :-) > > Do not blame me for that, but to me (*) Sage is before anything else a > tool for researchers. To experiment, to compare, to check things. And > on that front it seems to have been a while since new folders were > created in src/. The most recent I could name are the finite automata > guys, and perhaps the asymptotic expressions thing. Is the domain of > mathematics covered by Sage expanding these days? What about the > manifold guys, for instance? Are they joining the project or do they > still develop on their own? > > This lack of mathematical expansion bothers me. +1 Thanks for pointing this out as a way for Sage to improve. I think sage-manifolds is being developed very much right now, but isn't included in sage. I personally think sage (like Python) would greatly benefit by having a healthy third party package infrastructure, with lots of code that is NOT necessarily included in sage, but is of high quality and easy to install. Many (most?!) other software ecosystems have thrived without having to be monolithic. > > Nathann > > (*) It is very important to read "to me" and nothing else. I make no > claim on what Sage *should* be, or what people *should* believe it to > be. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:;>. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:;>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
