Definitely (B). I am interested and would like to help, especially if the goals include typeset math output (such as LaTeX). Does qt-console do that?
On 17 August 2014 09:35, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > as is probably known, I would like to make the IPython notebook a > frontend for FriCAS. > > As I currently understand, there are in principle two ways to achieve this. > > (A) using pexpect and communicating with the FriCAS command line (and > probably heavily relying on ioHook, > (B) adding a zeromq library to FriCAS and thus turning FriCAS directly > into an IPython kernel. > > Method (A) together with recent ipython development > http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/wrapperkernels.html > is probably easier to achieve (similar to what was already running in > the SageNotebook). However, I feel that it has some disadvantages, > mainly coming from the fact that (as I understand it now) the flow would go > > notebook --(a)-- K --(b)-- FriCAS > > where K would be a kernel (similar to bash ... see > https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel) and connection (a) would be > done via zeromq (http://zeromq.org) whereas connection (b) would be with > pexpect (i.e. a simple text interface). > > I somehow find (B) more attractive, since it would simply look like > > notebook --(a)-- FriCAS > > ZeroMQ looks to me very similar to the socket stuff that we anyway have > in FriCAS only that the messaging protocol would be different. > http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/messaging.html > There also seems to exist a library http://zeromq.org/bindings:cl that > could be used. > > What do others say? Would (A) or (B) be the better alternative? > > In particular for (B), it looks like one would have to hook into > "intloopReadConsole" > https://github.com/fricas/fricas/blob/master/src/interp/int-top.boot#L197 and > add the zeromq messaging for the notebook from there. Who else would > like to get his/her hands dirty (with coding or just with hints of how > to do it) and dive into "turning FriCAS into an IPython kernel"? > > Note that in the above scheme one can change "notebook" with > "qt-console". > http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/qtconsole.html That would > then be an interface that's not running in a browser. > > Ralf > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
