On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 6:48:30 AM UTC-7 Oscar Benjamin wrote: Is the benefit in this case mainly about reduced disk/network usage?
I could imagine other theoretical benefits like maybe some parts could be installed natively on Windows or some parts might be easier to provide binaries for etc. Oscar, thanks for bringing up these important points. Yes, the modularization -- namely the ability to separately build and run and test portions of the Sage library -- also facilitates porting to new platforms in several ways. - If nothing else, because it enables an incremental approach to porting: I don't have to first make the whole thing build before I can run and test a portion. - More importantly, it varies very much by the dependency packages how hard it is to port them to a new platform; and how much *interest* in the developer community of these packages there is in porting. Yes, native Windows would clearly be a very important target. In another direction: I have started a port of Sage to pyodide, the distribution of Python for WebAssembly (WASM), which makes Python runnable directly in the browser. I can already run and test the modularized distributions **sagemath-objects**, **sagemath-categories** there. See https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-10.3-Release-Tour#porting-to-the-pyodide-web-assembly-platform As I wrote there: "Several upstream projects that Sage uses already have ongoing Pyodide or WASM/Emscripten efforts: The SymPy Live Shell <https://live.sympy.org/index.html> and the interactive shell on the NumPy.org front page <https://numpy.org/> use JupyterLite <https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, running Pyodide in a Web Worker in the browser. Also PARI/GP runs in the browser <https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gpexpwasm.html> using a WASM/Emscripten port. Giac also has an Emscripten port <https://github.com/geogebra/giac?tab=readme-ov-file>." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e0582669-4495-412e-8082-aa8b6649ca49n%40googlegroups.com.
