Hi William, On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:17 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ondrej, > > For GSoC some important points are the following. > > 1. Regarding " One big goal is to make Sage use CSymPy > (https://github.com/sympy/csympy) as the main symbolic engine instead > of Pynac." I would be more comfortable if you rephrase this to "One > big *longterm* goal is to make it possible for Sage to use CSymPy > (https://github.com/sympy/csympy) as the main symbolic engine instead > of Pynac." In particular, this shouldn't be a goal for this GSoC, > since it's a fulltime 1-year project, at least.
100% agree. > > 2. Make another goal be to reduce the reliance of Sage on Maxima, with > a longterm goal to remove that reliance. (Simplification, Taylor > series, Symbolic integration, etc.) Agree. > > 3. Regarding: "At the end of the summer I don't expect Sage to be > switched, but I think there could be a clear path forward, and it > should be possible to use it as an optional package in Sage, side by > side, with good interoperability." I think this is realistic and > should be emphasized. Moreover, why not have CSymPy be in Sage by > default (not just an optional package)? That would be great. I would start with an optional package, make sure it works for people and there is interest in having it as default, and then propose it as default. I am going to put it here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2015#Project_Ideas Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
