Martin, I think discussing things like off the email lists does more damage to the community then it would if you were to be more public about these opinions. Are far as I am concerned, you have nothing to fear from exploring these ideas and other people might benefit greatly by your experience.
Sage is not going away (It should not go away!) and I think the Axiom community needs to deal with how it should interact with Sage in the future. Regards, Bill Page. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have the guts to send this to a public mailing list. I probably > should. If you want to, you have my permission. > > > "Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Axiom is so huge, so if Sage would be a part of Axiom that just handles > > > the web interface, why not? > > > > If you think Axiom is huge, then you need to look at Sage. It is ~10x > Axiom. > > And in the other hand Axiom making a standard package will not happen. > There > > are discussions on their list to remove lisp and maxima. > > That's bad news, at least for me. I was hoping a lot that Axiom could be > merged into Sage at some point, in some way. After all, Axiom does have some > interesting and huge packages, like the integration stuff. But maybe I'm > mistaken. > > It seems that Sage is going to connect with OLPC. If all those kids do their > math using Sage, I think there is no way around Sage anymore. Sage can > already > do many many things better than Axiom, I suppose, so we need really good > reasons to continue with Axiom, I think. Maybe I should just redo the > guessing > package in Python and be done with it? Some time ago I said that I'll quit > Axiom if there are less than twenty contributors by the end of 2008. > However, > it seems to me that the number of algebra contributors actually went down! > > I'd really like to hear some comments on the general plan. Do you think it's > feasible to > > a) attract other people, not working on Sage > b) merge our community into the Sage community > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer