On 31 December 2012 17:09, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David Kirkby <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 28 December 2012 17:55, Ivan Andrus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Dec 28, 2012, at 4:47 PM, David Kirkby <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> Mathematica were not tested regularly - I don't know if that has
>> >> changed.
>> >
>> > Of course, the Mathematica interface cannot be tested as often as
>> > everything else because not everyone has a license.  However,  #13540 would
>> > be a good step towards getting it (and other optional tests) tested more.
>> >
>> > -Ivan
>>
>> It is fairly easy to get a trial license for Mathematica. The last I
>> knew, it was as simple as
>>
>> 1) Creating an account on the Wolfram Research web site
>> 2) Request a trial.
>> 3) You get sent a download link
>> 4) Download, and run. It connects to the internet to get a trial license
>> key.
>>
>> and away you go. At one point someone had to approve your trial, but
>> now they seem to have dispensed with any human interaction, and one
>> can get the trial immediately.
>>
>> That was the case last I looked, which was about 6 months ago. Things
>> might have changed.
>
>
> It goes without saying, but this isn't sustainable.  You get 30 days, and
> then it's over.

It's enough to do a periodic check Sage still works with Mathematica

I know when I tried to use the Sage-> Mathematica interface, and found
it was broke, it became apparent it had been broken for many months.
That could be avoided.

Dave

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