Hi everybody. I see this discussion is getting less focus in this moment.
I am fine with this, I see people has a lot of stuff to do. At the same time, would you please consider updating the open ticket on SAGE: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3852 I think this would make at least this discussion useful for the future. Best regards Maurizio On 23 Mar, 22:37, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com> wrote: > People, > I'm really glad about having brought this discussion to a reasonably > interesting level. > > From now on, I can't give any other comment (I can't deal with code so > specific issues), but I'd like to hear those coming from the > mantainers ofSAGE. > As far as I'm concerned, I was trying to get the attention of > Quantities' developers, and I think I accomplished this in a fairly > satisfying way. I can try to give my comments now, but the situation > now seems to be tightly related on whether there is any chance that > anybody works on anything. > So, words are becoming less important than actions in this phase, in > my opinion. > By the way, to me, it doesn't seem that dealing with numpy quantities > should be a big deal (at least for the time being), otherwise how > comes are we using already numpy for numerical stuff at the moment? I > know this could be bad for my final aim (that is, bringing physical > units to a higher degree of functionalities, related to polynomials > and symbolic, and I've seen that other people have interest in this), > because maybe getting this simple feature could calm down this > discussion and let people forget this issue. > > To connect to the other discussion we are having in this days, I think > this engineering related features should be enhanced and stressed (and > possibly clearly documented), and I don't think this needs to create > another distribution ofSAGE, the current one is very good and I'd > like to have a single version. > > I still encourage you guys to at least give your comments > > Regards and thanks everybody > > Maurizio > > On 23 Mar, 21:03, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > On Mar 22, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > > > > On Mar 20, 10:31 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > >> Maurizio wrote: > > >>> Not yet... I think I was previously asking whether some of you guys > > >>> are interested in trying to contact them, if you do think it does > > >>> makes sense. > > > >>> I mean, if this community is interested in having this feature, the > > >>> Quantities developers are going to find some good feedback, > > >>> otherwise, > > >>> we could just probably end up losing a good occasion, because things > > >>> are not ready yet (although I hope that's not the case)! > > > >> I think there are a good number of people now that would like to have > > >> the feature, and as you well know, there are lots and *lots* of > > >> future > > >> users that would like to have the functionality. > > > >> I'd say it's time to contact them and see if they can help. If there > > >> needs to be changes made to Quantities, then making them now, > > >> while it > > >> is still solidifying, would be advantageous. > > > > Hello, I am Darren Dale, the developer of Quantities. Thank you > > > Maurizio for contacting me. > > > Glad to hear from you. > > > [...] > > > > I guess the question I have for this list is, what would be required > > > for quantities to work insage? I would prefer to try to work out the > > > numpy issues I alluded to before quantities gets too much exposure, in > > > case changes in API are required (unlikely). > > > Am I correct in understanding that the values in Quantities all need > > to be NumPy values? If this is the case, it probably boils down to > > NumPy's not handling of non-Python types. This really needs to get > > resolved. > > > - Robert > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
