Ralf, I have been following your posts on the FriCAS and Sage developer lists on attempting to use the Sage Notebook as a GUI for FriCAS. What features you are interested in having in a GUI for FriCAS? The reason I am asking is that you may consider using MathPiperIDE as a GUI for FriCAS as an alternative to the Sage Notebook. If you would like to evaluate MathPiperIDE for this purpose, a copy of it can be obtained from the MathPiper website:
http://mathpiper.org MathPiperIDE currently has the following capabilities: - Platform-independent (it runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac). - A language-neutral worksheet system. - Interactive 2D graphics. - Interactive 3D graphics. - A powerful documentation system. - A LaTeX rendering system which renders LaTeX on-the-fly. - A CAS called MathPiper which is implemented on top of a custom Lisp interpreter. This means that it may be possible to have FriCAS communicate with MathPiperIDE using an S-expression based interface. MathPiperIDE has been under heavy development for over 2 years now (http://code.google.com/p/mathpiper/source/list) and our plan is to continue this level of development for the foreseeable future. Anyway, a while ago I added code to MathPiper which enabled it to communicate with Maxima using an interface based on operating system process and my thought is that this code would be a good starting point for an interface to FriCAS. If you are interested is pursuing this idea, let me know and we can discuss it further. Ted Kosan MathPiper project manager -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
