On 10 June 2014 09:53, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > John Cremona wrote: >> >> On 9 June 2014 23:55, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the investigative work! >>> >>> Using the terminal echo isn't really a solution, maybe it doesn't fail as >>> often but it cannot work all the time. The terminal echo can and will >>> occasionally (rarely) be interleaved with the stdout. >>> >>> Did I mention that I hate pexpect ;-) >> >> >> I would be happy to reduce the number of pexpect interfaces by 1 by >> removing that interface to mwrank. It is redundant since we have a >> library interface (and "sage -mwrank" if you really want to use it >> like that). >> >> How many others are there? > > > Well, at least > > * GAP -> now libGAP > * Singular -> libs/singular > * Maxima (via ECL library) > * PARI[/GP] (not really used via pexpect I think)
Yes it is. We have at least one piece of important functionality (for elliptic curve people) provided via a gp script. In facto src/etc/pari contains 3 such, and I use at least 2 of them! > * Lcalc? I though that was a library. John > > R isn't used in Sage library code AFAIK. > > Not sure whether the library interfaces offer the full functionality [yet]. > > I'm all in favour of removing calls through the pexpect interface from > ordinary Sage library code. > > > -leif > > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
