I would like to see SymPy be used more heavily in other Python packages. Many projects need or already have some small algebraic system. I would like to see SymPy become more of a standard, at least in the scientific python ecosystem. I think that this could place SymPy in a much more prominent position and generate a lot of activity within the project.
GSoC students are a major resource for us. How do people feel about directing some of this resource towards this issue? Are we willing to accept project proposals that largely inject SymPy into other prominent codebases? I'm personally familiar with projects in the statistics world, notably statsmodels and pymc. Each of them has implemented a little language to define statistical models but neither language handles things like derivatives or simplification both of which would provide real performance boosts. I suspect that SymPy could be really useful in the growing python statistics ecosystem. I also suspect that there are several other low-hanging fruit out there in other domains. However, it is strange that we would support a GSoC student that would not improve *our* codebase. How do people feel about this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
