On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> What actually needs to be done?

Well, basically just get a Sage trac account (I think just email
sage-trac-account https://groups.google.com/group/sage-trac-account for that),
click on the trac ticket and click positive review:-) To actually to the review
correctly, see the appropriate sections of the developer's manual
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/ (for example I like
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/producing_patches.html
to apply patches).


>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:31 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Just a little reminder: there is a trac item in Sage detailing with
>> the upgrade of
>> Sympy to 0.7.1 (from 0.6.4). I think almost anyone on this email list with
>> sufficient interest could do this review:
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11560.
>> It would be great if someone could find the time to do this.
>> I have agree to write a review of a CAS for a December publication,
>> and resolving this ticket would help a lot for examples I could give
>> that mention Sympy. (I am thinking now it would possibly be on Sage
>> but mention Sympy in some examples.)
>>
>> I'd also like to say that, thanks to the improvements to the
>> Sympy 0.7.1 modules for dsolve (mostly due to Aaron Meurer),
>> some DEs are solved by Sympy better than by Maxima -
>> very useful for my day-to-day teaching!
>
> I wrote the initial ODE module, which was first included in 0.6.6, but
> not much has changed since then.  But I guess the most recent Sage
> version is 0.6.4.  Anyway, I haven't really done much work on it since
> then :)
>
> I did notice at the time, though, that it was more powerful that
> Maxima (or any other open source CAS that I knew of). For example, no
> other open source system (or at least not Maxima) to my memory
> bothered to implement the general nth order case for variation of
> parameters.  Also, I don't think things like first order ODEs with
> homogeneous coefficients are implemented in Maxima, if I remember
> correctly.
>
> Anyway, I'm glad to hear that it's been useful to you.
>
> By the way, do you find the hint manager useful for teaching?  That


Yes, it is. Sadly, it is not in Sage yet though...


> was one of the motivations of implementing it, that it would be easy
> to teach, e.g., the Bernoulli method and call dsolve(ode, f(x),
> 'Bernoulli') or dsolve(ode, f(x), 'Bernoulli_Integral'), and it would
> be very instructive, as the output would look exactly like it would if
> you used that method by hand (especially the Integral output).


Agreed. And, thanks very much for your hard work on improving
this!


>
> Aaron Meurer
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.
>>
>> - David
>>
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