Hi > I'm going to suggest that interested parties just write a new > package for Sage, after reviewing existing packages, instead > of trying to bolt one of the existing packages onto Sage.
I have honestly taken this into account, but there are a couple of cons: - nobody is volunteering, so the amount of work-time seems very limited - I don't like to reinvent the wheel, that's why I like SAGE so much - I have very limited experience about Python programming (especially classes and stuff like that) - I would like to take advantage of others' experience about designing a package like that > > Unit conversion and dimensions analysis isn't very complicated, > so it's probably easier to just write it anew. > The existing packages have various features, so someone > can just pick and choose the features they want. > > Shameless plug --- I wrote the ezunits package for Maxima, > which makes extensive use of symbolic computations, > and has a very convenient syntax for annotating units > and for unit conversions, and some interesting random > features; I like this one: > > 10000 ` m `` [mile, yard, foot, inch]; > => [6 ` mile, 376 ` yard, 0 ` foot, 608/127 ` inch] > > Maybe ezunits can a source of some inspiration. > I would love that, but I can't read LISP :P > FWIW > > Robert Dodier By the way, do you think is it convenient to create a new wiki page about this topic to summarize all this stuff? I have two questions: first of all, I don't know how to do that, even if it seems pretty easy to modify an existing page. The second question is: on the wiki itself, the developers suggest to create a trac ticket with a wish list, instead of creating wiki pages. Nonetheless, there is that SEP (SAGE Enhancement Proposal) there, which seems a suitable place to write. Last doubt: is anybody going to read it? :) Thanks 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
