On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier <emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Le samedi 6 décembre 2014 19:01:46 UTC+1, Emmanuel Charpentier a écrit : >> >> I'm not sure that fricas *has* to be a package : the current versins (6.4, >> 6.5beta) already have the fricas interface compiled in : >> >> >> /usr/local/sage-6.5/src/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/sage/interfaces/fricas.py >> /usr/local/sage-6.5/src/sage/interfaces/fricas.py >> >> /usr/local/sage-6.5/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/fricas.py >> >> /usr/local/sage-6.5/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/fricas.pyc >> >> and fricas() calls a possible systemwide fricas. Successfully. Therefore >> fricas has the same "Sage status" as Mathematica, Magma or Matlab. >> >> However, the fricas interface lacks a .fricas() method for getting the (a) >> fricas-palatable representation of some objects. It also lacks somethong to >> avid the "ascii_art" default output of fricas, which is quite unparsable by >> the sage() method (which exists). >> >> I also saw somewhere on the list the suggestion of a "algorithm=fricas" >> option to integrate(), which seems a very good idea. >> >> Nevertheless, having a fricas package which might replace a systemwide >> fricas installation might help its disemination. >> >> HTH, >> >> -- >> Emmanuel Charpentier >> >> Le samedi 6 décembre 2014 18:23:32 UTC+1, vdelecroix a écrit : >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I just discover FriCAS and its tremendous possibilities. I just updated >>> the package that we ship we Sage from version 0.3.1 to version 1.2.4 (more >>> information at http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9465). It might become a more >>> standard package. >>> >>> I have a very naive question: the version of lisp we have in Sage is ecl, >>> does it make a huge difference with sbcl ? >>> >>> Best >>> Vincent > > > Ahem. I have to retract that : if we want to add an 'algorithm="fricas"' > option to sage's integrate(), fricas just *has* to be there as a standard > package.
No, your original statement was correct, since we have algorithm='magma' for some functions. William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
