Maxima can indeed be coerced into behaving like a library in ECL. The changes required are relatively small and it would be easy to incorporate them into the current spkg. I haven't bothered, since other people are already working on a new maxima. Details posted on:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6781 The ticket also contains an example session where maxima functionality is used in a library-like way. The wrapper for ECL is still only a hack. Should this be a road worth taking, someone would have to think what the most appropriate way would be to set it up. Issues: 1. Signal handler collision between sage and ecl 2. sage segfaults upon exit if ecl has run 3. ecl by default has an error handler that doesn't work well inside sage 4. current wrapper is not GC-safe, but that's straightforward to fix. I'm completely out of my depth for 1, 2, so input from someone else would be highly appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
