On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A message from Florent and Nicolas: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear Sage developers, > > After months of discussions and experiments we, MuPAD-Combinat > developers, have finally reached a conclusion: > > We are joining you!
AWESOME!! Welcome! > Thank you for all the support you readily provided us. This decision > is a risky one for us: it will be a massive investment to migrate our > code and, even more important, our community. We really count on your > support to make this profitable for both sides in the long run! You will definitely get our full support. I'm extremely glad our groups our joining projects, and am very much looking forward to the many improvements that are ahead. > - We will for the first time have a bottom-up open-source environment > for algebraic combinatorics! Finally! This is exactly what I've been working for with everybody for so many years. I'm really glad that you appreciate it so much. > - We will join a much larger community of enthusiastic > developers: Mike, Dan^2, Justin, Kurt, Gregg, ... Plus all the Sage developers... > - We won't have to worry anymore about releases, compilation, > portability, ... Thanks Michael for relieving us from this! > - We will have under our fingertips all the blazingly fast > specialized libraries we have always dreamed of (linbox, singular, > ...), and all the power of a widely used general purpose language. > Think optimized data structures, string or IPC libraries, cython ... Yep. Again, welcome! Best regards, William > In the coming days, we will start building a roadmap by posting > tickets on Sage trac for both: > - sage low level features we would like to rely on > - features we want to port > > We spent a lot of time on the design of MuPAD-Combinat (which also > means we are the most critical about some parts of it :-)). We very > much hope that the experience gained there will be recycled and built > upon during the migration. Many design decisions are (regrettably) not > written down; so if you want to help, please consult with us, so that > we can discuss what is the most natural translation into Sage! > > Some pointers: > - http://mupad-combinat.sourceforge.net/Wiki/Sage > - http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/ > - http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-combinat/ > > Finally, we would like to take this occasion to thank the MuPAD > developers for their continuous support throughout the years of our > fruitful collaboration with them. > > Looking forward good fun together! > > Florent and Nicolas > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
