Hello, I'm forwarding this to sage-devel as well, maybe being the most appropriate group to address this issue.
I'm a happy user of SAGE, and I won't stop thanking all you guys for this wonderful job! Although, I also try to encourage you in getting something better (from my point of view). It seems there has been some serious thinking about including a UNITS of MEASUREMENTS managing package in SAGE: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_frm/thread/8791448b7... >From this, a SAGE trac ticket has been opened (#3852): http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3852 This is supposed to be a MAJOR priority ticket, and I think this is a very appropriate description! The ticket has a very good (although a bit old now) description of the different packages available to deal with units in Python. One of the options, was the units package included in Enthought. This had the issue of being under refactoring at that time. The actual situation seems to be that the Enthought package has not been changed (https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/ticket/1524) because of some priority issues in that community (very understandable!), but another interesting package was born from this Enthought discussion: the "quantities" package: http://packages.python.org/quantities/ http://dale.chess.cornell.edu/chess-wiki/Quantities As I can see, this has already been mentioned in a comment to our trac ticket, but with no response. Honestly, I am not able to understand whether this is good enough to be included in SAGE, neither I am able of understanding how much refactoring this would need to make this compatible to all the wonderful symbolic capabilities of SAGE, but nonetheless I think that getting something working at least in the numeric domain, could be very useful With this, I'm not proposing this package over others (for example, Unum looks very mature, but outdated), I'm just asking if one of you can spend some minutes to review our trac ticket about units of measurement (#3852), and to take some other decision about it. Thank you so much Maurizio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
