Re: [sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-04-17 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mike OS wrote: > > I have some funding from my university to develop materials in SAGE > for use in my classes. The focus of the project is developing > educational materials but we'd also like to  contribute to SAGE > development. I posted to sage-edu about educati

Re: [sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Albrecht
> A. William started a libgap, analogous to libsing, but it has lain > fallow for a while. As we understand things, there is a somewhat > different challenge with GAP.Much of Singular's functionality is > written in C so that SAGE can access it via Cython, whereas much of > GAP is written i

Re: [sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-03-08 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mike, On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Mike OS wrote: > and we would like some > guidance on how we can contribute. You want to be familiar with the trac server [1] and the Developer's Guide [2]. At minimum, the first chapter of that guide is required reading for any Sage developer. See al

Re: [sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-03-08 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mike, On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Mike OS wrote: > Comments? Just a heads up: Whatever you do, please try to use the word "Sage" in your discussion with Sage beginners or indeed with anyone. The Sage project has long abandoned the acronym "SAGE" in favour of "Sage". In the good old da

Re: [sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-03-08 Thread David Joyner
Awesome Mike - thanks for working on this! On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Mike OS wrote: > > I have some funding from my university to develop materials in SAGE > for use in my classes. The focus of the project is developing > educational materials but we'd also like to  contribute to SAGE > dev

[sage-devel] Groups in Sage, libgap

2010-03-08 Thread Mike OS
I have some funding from my university to develop materials in SAGE for use in my classes. The focus of the project is developing educational materials but we'd also like to contribute to SAGE development. I posted to sage-edu about educational issues. This post concerns development, specifical