On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm leaning towards a BSD-licensed C library with a RPC mechanism (tcp/ip
> socket or named pipe). That would be pretty minimal and you don't have to
> worry about Python stuff when linking on the proprietary side.


Yes, that makes a *lot* of sense.  It's what MathLink should be in the
first place.

William


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> On Friday, December 28, 2012 4:47:46 PM UTC, William wrote:
>>
>>    1. Write a standalone Python program that listens for incoming
>> connections on some TCP port. It will also link in the wolfram mathlink
>> library, e.g., using ctypes.  Put it on pypy under say the BSD license.
>>  It's a completely separate program (and process) from Sage.  What it does
>> is sit there and accept connections, then forward all traffic to
>> Mathematica.
>>     2. Use (1) from Sage.  Probably the user has to "easy_install" 1 (or
>> we can also make it an optional sage package).
>>
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