On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Maurizio wrote: > Hi all > > On Jun 12, 7:41 am, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> > wrote: >> No, but I believe there are several Python packages that do this that >> you could install into Sage. (There was talk about adding this at one >> point, what is needed is a good list of all the best open-source >> packages out there and a discussion of which one to choose and why). >> > > I want to mention that I started a discussion about this same topic a > couple of months ago: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_frm/thread/ > ae18ce618abd66d2/649bd604d0fd20c9?hl=en%CA%89bd604d0fd20c9 > > as you can see, I already tried to provide a list of all the best > open- > source packages out there, I also proposed a couple of > modifications... I was actually quite interested in that stuff. > Nonetheless, there was not enough interest in the community, maybe, so > that discussion ended without any concrete effect.
It seemed there was a fair amount of interest, but it there wasn't a obvious winning solution, and no one had enough incentive to advocate and push through a full plan. (Usually this isn't an indication that no one wants it, but that everyone is already busy trying to work on stuff more relevant to their goals.) > I am willing to give new life to this discussion :) I am wondering > whether a brainstorming system (like the one adopted by Ubuntu - > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ ) could be useful to catch the > community's needs :) Yes, and thanks for the effort there. If I remember right, quantities (?) looked pretty good, but it only can accept numpy scalars. It would be good to summarize this discussion/the options on a wiki-- threads are good for a discussion but it becomes hard to get a big picture once they get so big. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
