On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:46 AM Emmanuel Charpentier < emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to do a lot of work for Sage - in fact I was at one point in the >> top 10% of some list William produced. But now the switch from mercurial to >> git, and I'm out of it. There are other reasons in my case - I worked >> mainly on the port to Solaris, completed that, but Solaris is no longer >> tested or working. >> > > Should it be rekindled ? Or should we stop to claim to support Solaris ? > I personally no longer care about Solaris support for Sage. We used to support Solaris before mainly because a paying customer paid us something (which made it possible for Michael Abshoff to work on Sage). They are no longer paying us, and haven't for many, many year. > >> * A DECENT interface to Mathematica, with a proper API, not using >> pexpect, which seems to be rather a poor alternative, which is always >> breaking. >> > > A good interface to "the competition" is always useful. However, I > wouldn't disdain pexpect, which turns out to be surpisingly useful. The > current (non-negligible) problems with Mathematica interface seem more > related to the lack of proper dictionaries and support functions in Sage > (where there are in fact functions to *guess* (!) a translation) than a > fundamental interface type problem. A real pair of parsers for what we > send to Mathematica and what it returns could be a useful first step... > Emmanuel, you really understand Sage... William -- -- William Stein -- 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.
