I've been working on an old ticket, #18138 (https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18138), regarding the Mathematica interface. Here's a quick summary of the ticket:
- Starting with Mathematica 9, the command line front end shipped with Mathematica no longer works with pexpect. - The short-term fix is a wrapper script, $SAGE_ROOT/src/bin/math-readline, for the proprietary Mathematica front end, but something more robust is desired. (See `git log -p -- $SAGE_Root/src/bin/math-readline`.) - The long-term fix is to author a replacement command line Mathematica front end which uses MathLink/WSTP to communicate to Mathematica, as it is assumed MathLink/WSTP will be relatively stable. I've written a suitable front end, MathLine, which lives here: https://github.com/rljacobson/MathLine. My recent commit introduces MathLine as an experimental package. The associated tarball is produced from the 1.0rc tag of the MathLine repository with: $ git archive --prefix=mathline-1.0/ -o mathline-1.0.tar.gz 1.0rc MathLine can be tested as a math-readline replacement by building MathLine as an experimental package as usual and changing the command in the Mathematica interface from command = "math-readline" to command = "mathline". I have tested MathLine on macOS Sierra 10.12 and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Mathematica 11.01. It is not clear how best to proceed. Because the proposal is to replace math-readline with the alternative front end (presumably with math-readline as a fallback), the front end code needs to be thoroughly peer reviewed. Provided MathLine is acceptable, Sage's Mathematica interface will need to be modified to use MathLine and, ideally, to take advantage of MathLine's options to avoid unnecessary pre-parsing of Mathematica output. The question is: Does the peer review of MathLine's code occur at the time MathLine is proposed as an experimental package? Or does it occur at the time the accompanying modified Mathematica interface is proposed? Or some combination? Best, Robert -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
