[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread Tim Lahey
On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:23 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > IMHO, a numerical pde solver wuld be a very useful addition to Sage, > even if only > as an optional package. > There are two that would be excellent additions, Trilinos - http://trilinos.sandia.gov/ PETSc - http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread ahmet alper parker
My hope is that when they understand the additional benefits of distributing it with GPL they can change it. Since, someone asked them to use it for commercial purposes, they allowed for it in the latest license. I am still hopeful :) Also, I think you are right about the difficultie of tcl/tk. At

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread David Joyner
Thanks for the clarification. This is definitely not an open source in the sense of OSI. I would call this "publically available source" with a non-commercial license. It would be less confusing to readers like me if you reworded your webpage, replacing "open source" by something else. (You might

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 23, 2:01 pm, "ahmet alper parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Firstly, I want to use it with R and with some other packages in which I can > signal process, optimize etc (there are many opportunities I think) and I > want to exchange data with opensees. Yes it is opensource but with

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread ahmet alper parker
For backward compatibility (for those who have written many of their codes with both Opensees and tcl/tk), I would like to support the existing tcl/tk layer. So it seems I have to do this one. { If you're willing to put in a lot more work for better performance (or if tkinter just works), you coul

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread ahmet alper parker
Firstly, I want to use it with R and with some other packages in which I can signal process, optimize etc (there are many opportunities I think) and I want to exchange data with opensees. Yes it is opensource but with the restriction that you can distribute it for noncommercial purposes but you can

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread Carl Witty
On Nov 23, 8:44 am, "ahmet alper parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,I want to integrate Opensees program into Sage. How can I do that? It is > extending the tcl language with its own commands. Its site > ishttp://opensees.berkeley.edu. If anyone has something tp comment on this > issue, they

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread David Joyner
If I read the webpage correctly, Opensees requires tcl/tk and is open source. Is this correct? I could not find a license file in the code and the "open source" link http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/open.html did not work for me. To get to your question, I think you can start by reading http

[sage-devel] Re: Opensees

2008-11-23 Thread ahmet alper parker
Sorry for the missing information. It is a finite element framework. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM, ahmet alper parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi,I want to integrate Opensees program into Sage. How can I do that? It > is extending the tcl language with its own commands. Its site is > http:/