On 28 December 2012 16:41, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, December 28, 2012 4:19:11 PM UTC, William wrote: >> >> I disagree. The only reason Sage doesn't have an interface to Mathematica >> written using the MathLink protocol is that nobody has got around to >> writting such an interface. I would like to strongly encourage people to >> write one. > > > Is there actually a MathLink wire protocol that is documented (and stable > across Mathematica versions)? All MathLink docs I ever saw just show you how > to use shared library that Mathematica comes with.
I guess this depends on your definition of protocol. Personally I would say using Mathlink http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/MathLinkAndExternalProgramCommunicationOverview.html would provide a protocol which is stable across mathematica versions. I know I used jmath with many versions, and I never knew it to break, whereas the current way in Sage is fragile. But, as you say, that does involve linking to a Wolfram Research library and it also requires using one of their header files. Their license permits this for non-commerical use, or one can get a commerical license, for which I assume you have to pay. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
