Hi all,
The Cadabra computer algebra project (http://cadabra.science), which
makes use of parts of SymPy under the hood, has secured funding for a
3.5 year research student position leading to a PhD in Mathematics. The
official announcement can be found at
That review process is what killed the Debian sagemath package
-- Upgrading during the review process
sends you to the back of the queue, and by a year after my original
submission, I had left MIT graduate school to start a startup, and I no
longer had the time to upgrade past a year of Sage
The maintainers logic is clear they don't want to duplicate stuff. I can
appreciate that. I suggest we approach them, saying we understand this, and
that
in general it would be silly to include everything. If we then produce a long
list of packages which have needed to be patched, then it is
Has anyone considered emailing the official maintainer
Tim Abbott tabb...@mit.edu
and ask him whether he would be interested in handing over
maintainership to someone with more time to bring the debian package
up to date?
I would be happy to help out with this (including contacting Abbott),
Are there issues if the gcc and core C libraries don't match? For
example, If a user uses cython in the notebook, will it pick up the
users g++ and Sage's libstdc++? What about someone who starts with a
binary then starts developing with it or installs optional packages?
On OS X, the
It would be better for end users if we built standard rpm/deb/etc.
packages that integrate well with the rest of each Linux, OS X,
Solaris, Windows, etc., operating system, and of course regularly
tested that the full test suite passes on each system, and when
packages on those systems get
