On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 8:47:40 AM UTC-8, William wrote: >> >> >> Basic question: is there any reason whatsoever for us to even have a >> pexpect interface to maxima anymore? Nils Bruin (and others) put a >> massive amount of effort into a C library version (using ecl) over the >> years... >> > Not for the use of calculus in sage.
Wow. Calculus in Sage is nearly the only critical reason we have Maxima in Sage; I didn't realize all that C library interface work wasn't useful for that. Oh well. Thanks for the clarification. Is the issue that Maxima tries to ask questions? -- William (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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
