On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:43 AM, dagss <da...@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote: > On Jul 11, 12:20 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. Sage at EuroScipy: >> >> Another thing -- though most talks mention Cython, not one single talk >> given about actual engineers/scientists doing work even mentioned Sage >> -- and there were over 30 talks. Perhaps there is no penetration at >> all of Sage into scientific computing, at least in Europe. Perhaps >> this will change in the next few years, given that NSF looks highly >> likely to fund this NSF granthttp://wstein.org/grants/compmath09/ >> >> Sage was only mentioned in the first keynote by Langtangen, in which >> he explained that installing Python for his students is very hard. >> His personal solution -- force the students to install Ubuntu, either >> natively or in a Virtual Machine. Full >> stop.http://picasaweb.google.com/wstein/20100710EuroscipyDay1#549240022431... >> He made some (funny) jokes about being a dictator. >> >> I personally disagree with his suggested "solution". Maple, Matlab, >> Mathematica do better, and so can we. > > I'm not sure if he meant it is a good solution, just an adequate > solution that works *now*. Here's some reasons Sage wouldn't work for > Langtangen (according to his talk): > > - He mentioned several Python's being around causing a mess as a > problem, Sage adds to this problem. When using a clean VirtualBox, > there is guaranteed to only be one Python installed and available, > which solved his biggest problem. > - LD_LIBRARY_PATH means people must either mess big-time with > environment variables, or start using "sage -python" and "sage - > ipython" (in which case all the examples about using Python from the > internet, scripts with shebangs "#!/usr/bin/env python" etc. stops > working).
Well, at least with femhub, "#!/usr/bin/env python" seems to be working just fine inside "femhub --shell". Ondrej -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
