Would be nice to have more "design decisions"/architecture documented. Anyway: Why that? (attachement)
Fabio On Feb 6, 2008 6:07 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex wrote: > > > I am using Mac OSX, running Python 2.5.1 from the terminal. > > > > By "regular interpreter" i mean, pulling up the Terminal and typing > > python to launch the Python. I want to be able to bundle everything up > > for users and let them interact with whatever interpreter they use and > > not necessarily need to know about using sage. Allowing them to build > > write scripts referencing my classes to manipulate data. > > > > Again, I'm new to Sage and Python (am typically a Java dev) so I > > apologize if these questions are ridiculous. I am trying to find > > analogous situation to jaring up my library and letting users use it > > to build Java apps. > > Here is my current understanding of what Sage's architecture looks > like (corrections by more knowledgeable developers are welcomed): > > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/tkosan/misc/sage_architecture_v.05.png > > What this diagram shows is that Sage takes a standard python > environment and then significantly enhances it with: 1) python code > developed by the core Sage developers. 2) open source math-oriented > python modules, and 3) pseudo-tty connections to various stand-alone > applications which are written in various languages. > > In Java, this might be similar to taking Java SE 6, bundling various > open source packages with it, and also bundling various native > applications with it and accessing them with JNI. > > Sage contains so much customized functionality that there is no easy > way to get around the need for people to have their own complete copy > of Sage in order to run any Sage-based code you may develop :-) > > Since you are a Java programmer learning Python, I recommend that you > read the "Jython Essentials" book from O'Reilly before moving on to > pure Python books. The Jython book explains how Python works by > showing how it is similar to Java and also how it is different. I > also came to Python from Java and I think this short book was able to > get me up and running with Python much quicker than a pure Python book > would have been able to do. > > Ted > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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