William Stein <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Martin Rubey
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ceterum censeo 2:
>>
>>> The problem -- which is a serious one -- is that Sage's symbolic
>>> integration is by default done using Maxima (this is currently the
>>> main way in which Maxima is used in Sage; the other big way is for
>>> solving symbolic equations).
>>
>> For my ears (well, eyes :-) this sounds like an insult. (and I'm
>> certainly not a maxima developer.)
>
> We are shipping a central critical component of Sage -- the symbolic
> integration function -- which none of us fully understand  or know how
> to fix bugs in.  This *is* a problem. 

If that's the reason (and I agree it's a very good reason), why don't
you state just this?

(it's not a technical issue I criticise, but I hope that's obvious.)

Martin

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