On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 2:12:30 PM UTC-8, William wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca <javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 8:47:40 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > >> > >> > >> Basic question: is there any reason whatsoever for us to even have a > >> pexpect interface to maxima anymore? Nils Bruin (and others) put a > >> massive amount of effort into a C library version (using ecl) over the > >> years... > >> > > Not for the use of calculus in sage. > > Wow. Calculus in Sage is nearly the only critical reason we have > Maxima in Sage; I didn't realize all that C library interface work > wasn't useful for that. Oh well. Thanks for the clarification. Is > the issue that Maxima tries to ask questions? > > I think you misunderstood my answer. Having a pexpect interface to maxima is not useful for calculus, because calculus uses the maxima_lib interface. In some places it is still communicating with maxima_lib through constructing and parsing strings, pretending that maxima_lib offers a pexpect interface. Apparently this is not a bottle neck, so people haven't bothered converting to the more efficient APIs that maxima_lib offers.
The "ask questions" problem doesn't arise: maxima_lib gets monkey-patched to raise an error instead of expecting the question to be answered. -- 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.
