On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Todd wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I understand the design decisions for the monolothic design of Sage. >> However, I'd like to carve out some pieces of it to use as a regular >> python extensions without the sage preprocessor, specifically the >> Basic algebra and calculus. > > Currently, the dependancies for basic calculus are still quite huge. > There is some intent (work?) to extract the wrappers (expect > interfaces) from the core library. > >> So the root question is: how do I go about finding maxima and it's >> python wrappers so I can compile it for regular python. Opening the >> source tarball has everything as spkg 's . > > An spkg is simply a bzip tar file, so you can do > > tar xvjf maxima-5.16.3.spkg > > and it will "unzip" the contents of the file. (Not sure how to do > this from a windows machine, but perhaps changing the extension to > ".tar.bzip2" and double-clicking might work.) All the interfaces are > in the sage-3.x.y.spkg. > > - Robert >
Also, you should check out the new "SPD" project, which is based on Sage, but more lightweight. http://code.google.com/p/spdproject/ William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
