> > It seemed there was a fair amount of interest, but it there wasn't a > obvious winning solution, and no one had enough incentive to advocate > and push through a full plan. (Usually this isn't an indication that > no one wants it, but that everyone is already busy trying to work on > stuff more relevant to their goals.)
I agree > > > I am willing to give new life to this discussion :) I am wondering > > whether a brainstorming system (like the one adopted by Ubuntu - > >http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/) could be useful to catch the > > community's needs :) > > Yes, and thanks for the effort there. If I remember right, quantities > (?) looked pretty good, but it only can accept numpy scalars. It > would be good to summarize this discussion/the options on a wiki-- > threads are good for a discussion but it becomes hard to get a big > picture once they get so big. > > - Robert You remember right, in fact that was an annoying issue: in my opinion adapting the external package to use the built-in SAGE numerical types is a huge advantage in terms of usability. For this reason, we contacted the quantity author, which took part to the discussion. He recognized that interaction with SAGE types was the first issue to deal with, but at the same time he was a little busy, so he probably thought that we should have figured out the way to solve this first issue at least. I can probably work at a wiki page summarizing this stuff (not that much of material, actually), but do you think anybody is going to take advantage of this? I often see abandoned page in the wiki, and moreover, if there had been enough interest in that, don't you think that people would have shown up in the thread? This group has the advantage that it has still quite good visibility, in my opinion higher than that of the wiki (but I could be wrong). What do you think? If you consider that a good point to start with, you could start creating the wiki page and I could try to edit that a little, and then we will see how it goes. All the other people involved, and interested in a unit package, please show just to say "hi" Regards Maurizio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
