[sage-devel] Re: sage.app possibility

2008-08-23 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:50 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a French guy -- Gaël Varoquaux -- who I had dinner with tonight and who co-organized Scipy 2008, who yesterday demoed a gui interface for IPython that he's writing. I've cc'd him on this email, in case he

[sage-devel] Re: sage.app possibility

2008-08-22 Thread Carl Witty
On Aug 22, 6:18 pm, David Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The weakness of this approach is that sage is running the main   application loop.  I.e. if f.derivative() takes its time, then there's   a spinning beachball.  I assume the big M's overcome this by   separating their GUIs from their

[sage-devel] Re: sage.app possibility

2008-08-22 Thread William Stein
The weakness of this approach is that sage is running the main application loop. I.e. if f.derivative() takes its time, then there's a spinning beachball. I assume the big M's overcome this by separating their GUIs from their kernels. Yes, they do. Sage can also do that, e.g., that's how