On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 7:31:53 AM UTC-7, rjf wrote: [large dialogue with Dima] >
> So I stay with my criticism of Sage -- you are always talking about > python this-and-that, but the large bodies of code that (apparently) > you depend upon and that (apparently) don't do exactly what you > imagine they are supposed to do -- you profess ignorance of. > > I have trouble separating whether you are criticizing Sage as a whole or Dima specifically. If the "you" above refers to just Dima, then I won't make any comments, but if the "you" means Sage as a whole, then I take issue with it. Many people involved with Sage have reported bugs to Maxima, usually with the behaviour nicely isolated. On several occasions, the reporters have helped with finding solutions, or even suggested complete patches to be made. We have worked very closely with the ECL developer at the time and helped to adapt the ECL library interface for easier embedding, which will also be useful for other embedding applications of ECL. Similarly, people have dived quite deeply into gap and singular to get library interfaces to those systems, and have subsequently worked with those projects to stabilize those interfaces. Same for Pari/GP. If you want to read up on the issues, you can look at the issue trackers (I wouldn't recommend it). So I think your criticism that "sage as a whole" tends to plead ignorance of the software it depends upon, is quite unjustified. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
