Nothing new on this issue? Regards, Johannes
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Johannes Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:59 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sep 3, 2:37 am, "Johannes Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello Sage developers, >> >> Hi Johannes, >> >>> I am one of the developers of the Python package SciTools >>> (http://scitools.googlecode.com) and for some time I have seen that >>> there is a package for SciTools in the experimental section in Sage. >>> The package is called scitools++ and it includes not only SciTools, >>> but also packages like doconce, epydoc, Gnuplot, IPython, Pmw, >>> preprocess.py, and Scientific Python. For a couple of days ago I >>> decided to try it out, however, it didn't work very well. I think >>> there was a problem with IPython. I'm not sure who created the >>> package, but I think there should be a separate package for SciTools >>> that doesn't install all the other packages. I have therefore created >>> a new SciTools package for Sage, called scitools-0.4.spkg. The package >>> depends on Gnuplot.py 1.8 and I have created a Sage package for this >>> as well. Both packages can be downloaded >>> fromhttp://folk.uio.no/johannr/tmp/. It would be very nice if SciTools >>> was included into Sage, perhaps in the experimental section for now. I >>> think the scitools++ package can be removed. >> >> I will check out the spkgs and get them reviewed. It might take a day >> or two, so please ping us if nothing happens. > > So, how is it going with the review? > >> In general we have moved away from gnuplot due to its non-GPL >> compatible license. We have discussed creating a non-free section for >> spkgs due to code like gnuplot. > > Okay, I see. > > Thanks for considering including SciTools into Sage, > > Johannes > >>> Thanks, >>> Johannes Ring >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >>> P.S. For those that don't know about SciTools, it's a Python package >>> with lots of useful tools for scientific computing and it is built on >>> top of other Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, and Scientific Python. >>> SciTools also includes a plotting interface called Easyviz >>> (http://code.google.com/p/scitools/wiki/EasyvizDocumentation), which >>> is a unified interface to other plotting packages like Gnuplot, >>> Matplotlib, VTK, and several others. It can do both curve plots and >>> more advanced 2D/3D visualization of scalar and vector fields and it >>> has simple, Matlab-like syntax. >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
