I've opened a question on their launchpad project: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/python-quantities/+question/64894
I hope you guys share my feelings, so that I've been a good ambassador Regards Maurizio On 21 Mar, 19:28, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > Maurizio wrote: > > Is any of you guys a launchpad member? > > I'm not able to contact the Quantities developers, this is the email I > > sent to their mailing list, but it has probably been filtered because of > > not being a developer. Jason can you forward this to the Quantities > > developers? > >https://edge.launchpad.net/~python-quantities-developers > > Yes, it looks like you have to join launchpad to see the emails, mail > the mailing list, etc. Could you join and be the point person between > Sage and Quantities? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > Thanks > > Maurizio > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: *Maurizio Granato* <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com > > <mailto:maurizio.gran...@gmail.com>> > > Date: Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM > > Subject: Quantities chance to spread > > To: python-quantities-develop...@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:python-quantities-develop...@lists.launchpad.net> > > > Hello guys, > > > I'm Maurizio, an electronic engineer who greatly appreciate the chance > > to work with all the python-powered tools nowadays freely available on > > the internet. > > > I discovered Quantities just a couple of days ago, and I'm very > > interested in taking advantage out of it. > > > Since I'm currently using SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/), I was eager > > to install Quantities in SAGE. I don't know whether you are aware of it, > > SAGE is a free open-source <http://hg.sagemath.org/> mathematics > > software system, that combines the power > > <http://www.sagemath.org/tour.html> of many existing open-source > > packages <http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html> into a common > > Python-based interface. From this point of view, Quantities addition > > makes perfect sense to me, to enhance engineering capabilities of SAGE: > > it is already very powerful, both in terms of numeric computation, since > > it includes *numpy and scipy*, and in terms of symbolic calculus, since > > it includes *sympy *and it greatly interfaces with *maxima*. > > > SAGE developers' aim is to provide an open source alternative to MatLab, > > Mathematica (and I would add Mathcad as well, because of the very nice > > html powered available interface), so having a physical quantities > > management should be a "must" feature. > > > As you can see here: > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_frm/thread/ae18ce618... > > I've proposed to include Quantities in SAGE, but unfortunately this is > > not directly possible, since SAGE deals with numbers not in the straight > > Python way. I've seen a lot of interest from the SAGE community in it, > > and it seems that they would greatly appreciate if you would consider to > > work a little bit (it seems that just some minor modifications would be > > necessary) to let quantities work in SAGE. A long term idea could be > > also to make quantities deal with the already present symbolic > > capabilities, that would allow for such an interesting scenario!! > > I consider this a win-win strategy, because this would add a very useful > > feature to SAGE, and would give you guys a great exposure, and a lot of > > bug reporting, I think. > > > Please, I also would like you to consider what I proposed in that > > mailing list for physical quantities management: please have a look at > > MESSAGE #16 of the thread I previously mentioned. My idea is to let the > > user add physically homogeneous quantities (like centimeters and > > millimeters, or milliVolts and Volts) and then produce the result in the > > more convenient way. I've derived this good habit from my CASIO > > calculator, that has been so useful and comfortable to use during all > > the years of my study and my work. I have already been able to do this > > with a one line modification in quantities source to do this. > > > Thank you very much for considering this, even just your comments on the > > SAGE group would be greatly appreciated. > > > Keep up the good work! > > > Best regards > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
