On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Nils Bruin wrote: > > Maxima can indeed be coerced into behaving like a library in ECL. The > changes required are relatively small and it would be easy to > incorporate them into the current spkg. I haven't bothered, since > other people are already working on a new maxima. Details posted on: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6781 > > The ticket also contains an example session where maxima functionality > is used in a library-like way. > > The wrapper for ECL is still only a hack. Should this be a road worth > taking, someone would have to think what the most appropriate way > would be to set it up. > > Issues: > 1. Signal handler collision between sage and ecl > 2. sage segfaults upon exit if ecl has run > 3. ecl by default has an error handler that doesn't work well inside > sage > 4. current wrapper is not GC-safe, but that's straightforward to fix. > > I'm completely out of my depth for 1, 2, so input from someone else > would be highly appreciated.
I don't know much about (1) and (2) either, but I have to say kudos to you for getting this far. That's pretty cool. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
