[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread 'Martin R' via sage-devel
The installation instructions say that ecl is roughly 3 times slower. Once upon a time, when I was a fricas contributor, it made quite a difference. But back than, sbcl was a no-go for sage (I forgot why). I still love fricas' language. I never underrstood why Python succeeded and Aldor

[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread mmarco
Maybe one reason to prefer ecl is that it is embeddable, which could allow us to have a much faster interface than pexpect? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
I'm not sure that fricas *has* to be a package : the current versins (6.4, 6.5beta) already have the fricas interface compiled in : /usr/local/sage-6.5/src/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/sage/interfaces/fricas.py /usr/local/sage-6.5/src/sage/interfaces/fricas.py

[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Le samedi 6 décembre 2014 19:01:46 UTC+1, Emmanuel Charpentier a écrit : I'm not sure that fricas *has* to be a package : the current versins (6.4, 6.5beta) already have the fricas interface compiled in : /usr/local/sage-6.5/src/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/sage/interfaces/fricas.py

Re: [sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com wrote: Le samedi 6 décembre 2014 19:01:46 UTC+1, Emmanuel Charpentier a écrit : I'm not sure that fricas *has* to be a package : the current versins (6.4, 6.5beta) already have the fricas interface compiled

[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread Nils Bruin
On Saturday, December 6, 2014 11:13:27 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Ahem. I have to retract that : if we want to add an 'algorithm=fricas' option to sage's integrate(), fricas just *has* to be there as a standard package. There is precedent otherwise. For instance

[sage-devel] Re: fricas pkg in Sage

2014-12-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Saturday, December 6, 2014 9:33:57 AM UTC-8, Martin R wrote: The installation instructions say that ecl is roughly 3 times slower. Once upon a time, when I was a fricas contributor, it made quite a difference. But back than, sbcl was a no-go for sage (I forgot why). I think it was