[sage-devel] Re: [Maxima] Sage VM Ware

2008-06-21 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Chibisi, > I am new to maxima and decided to visit the Sage website when I saw the > discussions on it. I just want to ask why does Sage need NM ware and why was > it built in that way? Sage requires VMWare on Windows since much of the software that Sage depends on does not build on Windows.

[sage-devel] Re: test suites, was: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread root
>> Are there any other major test suite collections available? > >At present Maxima includes a copy of Michael Wester's test suite >which was the basis for his published review of computer algebra >systems from about 10 years ago. We haven't done anything with it >but I asked for and received perm

[sage-devel] test suites, was: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread Robert Dodier
root wrote: > Are there any other major test suite collections available? At present Maxima includes a copy of Michael Wester's test suite which was the basis for his published review of computer algebra systems from about 10 years ago. We haven't done anything with it but I asked for and receiv

[sage-devel] Re: rewriting vs. incorporating. was: Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM, rjf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does anyone rewrite code that apparently already exists? > > For myself, I can say this: > Sometimes I don't understand other people's code. It is too > elaborate, too general, uses extra layers of technology, is in a > prog

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread parisse
> But I don't see any real interest from you either, so I don't see any > problem with it. ? Why do you think I'm writing here if I really had no interest? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from th

[sage-devel] Re: lite.sagemath.org

2008-06-21 Thread David Harvey
I think the extra links "Try Sage online!" and "Try it online!" look a bit weird. Maybe it would be better if they were somehow part of the main menu thing in the middle of the screen. On the downloads page, there is a space missing before "additional instructions". david On Jun 9, 2008,

[sage-devel] rewriting vs. incorporating. was: Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread rjf
Why does anyone rewrite code that apparently already exists? For myself, I can say this: Sometimes I don't understand other people's code. It is too elaborate, too general, uses extra layers of technology, is in a programming language I am uncomfortable with. Maybe some other reasons. Recentl

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-06-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Then I don't see this happen. When I decided to write a plugin for > texmacs, I knew approximatively how much time it would require, and > there was a very positive feedback from the texmacs community, which > was very open to add a plugin for giac. I don't know how much time it > would require