On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Burcin Erocal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:32:54 +0100 > "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Burcin Erocal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > > <snip> >> > We will have a completely new implementation of summation, >> > independent of the one in Maxima. At the moment I have an >> > implementation of the theoretical framework which lets you solve >> > much more complicated sums than the ones above. Unfortunately, >> > coming up with an interface that spares the user from the gory >> > details of the theory will still be a challenge. Thus, it will be >> > some time before these problems are handled natively in Sage, but >> > then Sage will (hopefully) be more capable than the others out >> > there. >> >> Is it still a plan to make the symbolic package standalone, or will >> this by tied and work only with the whole Sage? > > In this case, my code depends very much on Sage, but it is very likely > that it will only be used to handle certain types of expressions, > where simpler and faster algorithms are used to simplify most input. > You might be able to separate those to be in a package that can work > without Sage, though I don't worry about this when I am coding.
Right. > > For pynac, the situation is completely different. While it is also > dependent on Sage at the moment, if you choose to use it for sympy, I > can make the interface between Sage and pynac clearer, and transfer > some of the glue code from Sage to pynac so that it's usable from > pure python. It might be better to wait a bit for pynac to mature > before doing this though. Excellent, thanks. Yes, let's wait a bit when it matures and see if people are interested in also having it as a separate package. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
