On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mike OS <mosul...@math.sdsu.edu> wrote: > > I have some funding from my university to develop materials in SAGE > for use in my classes. The focus of the project is developing > educational materials but we'd also like to contribute to SAGE > development. I posted to sage-edu about educational issues. This > post concerns development, specifically groups in SAGE and the > relationship with GAP. I've hired two students, Rhea Morton and > Ryan Rosenbaum to work on the project, and we would like some > guidance on how we can contribute. > > Some observations: > > A. William started a libgap, analogous to libsing, but it has lain > fallow for a while. As we understand things, there is a somewhat > different challenge with GAP. Much of Singular's functionality is > written in C so that SAGE can access it via Cython, whereas much of > GAP is written in GAP's own language, so pexpect is required to access > it. How does this affect goals for libgap? Does this mean that > libgap will be inherently limited in efficiency or functionality?
Have you guys made any progress at all on libGAP? -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
