On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Tim Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting the point in the Debianization of Sage that I'm primarily > > working on the package for Sage itself (rather than its dependencies). > > Below is my current draft description for the Debian Sage package > > (i.e. > > the stuff that would show up when you run 'apt-cache show sagemath'). > > Any comments would be appreciated. > > > > (I've noticed that SAGE has been replaced with Sage on the website, > > and am > > following that change in the package description). > > Yes, we officially changed the name from SAGE (the acronym) to Sage (the > word) I think about 8 months ago. > > > -Tim Abbott > > > > Package: sagemath > > Priority: optional > > Section: math > > ... > > Description: Computer algebra system written in Python > > Sage is a computer algebra system with support for a wide range of > > I do not like to call Sage a "computer algebra" system. I prefer to call > it "mathematical software". I don't like the term "computer algebra" since > it suggests sage is only for "computer *algebra*", whereas Sage is for > much more than just algebra. > > > mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced > > number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative > > algebra, > > group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra. > > . > > Sage integrates several dozen mathematical software packages, making > > it > > possible to combine the best algorithms from several different > > packages > > together in a single Sage program. > > . > > Much of the Sage core and the Sage interfaces are implemented in > > Cython, > > helping Sage avoid the usual performance problems associated with > > Python. > > . > > Sage has a friendly command-line interface based on iPython and a > > web-based notebook interface which can run locally or connect to a > > remote > > Sage server over the network. > > I really really like the rest of this description. > Hi,
I am almost at the same stage myself on Gentoo. I have started uploading individual packages to the science overlay and have a few under review. And I am working on Sage proper - I will remember the capital "S". So I guess I will use that description too :) that is if Tim doesn't mind. I may a bit slower at the moment as I have some computer problems at home. Francois --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
