On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:52 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The Sage packages that directly depend on Fortran are: R, f2c,
>> lapack, blas, numpy, scipy, cvxopt:
>>
>
>> Note that numpy can be built and used *without* fortran, e.g., when I
>> removed fortran from psage I kept numpy...
>>
>
> So a non-Fortran Sage would lose a lot of numerical ability (mpmath
> would stay, but it looks like GSL depends on blas/atlas/something with
> Fortran)
numpy and GSL *BOTH* stay. The entire point of GSL is that it is
numerical code written in C instead of Fortran.
In fact, GSL is in psage. You might even try downloading and
building the latest version of psage:
http://purple.sagemath.org/source/?C=N;O=D
> and a non-Lisp Sage would lose Maxima (for us, primarily
Yes.
> symbolic ODE/sum/integrals, since we don't use sympy for these +
> second option for numerical integration and maybe some other stuff).
Yes.
> Good to know, thanks.
>
> - kcrisman
>
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