Hello Sage developers, I am one of the developers of the Python package SciTools (http://scitools.googlecode.com) and for some time I have seen that there is a package for SciTools in the experimental section in Sage. The package is called scitools++ and it includes not only SciTools, but also packages like doconce, epydoc, Gnuplot, IPython, Pmw, preprocess.py, and Scientific Python. For a couple of days ago I decided to try it out, however, it didn't work very well. I think there was a problem with IPython. I'm not sure who created the package, but I think there should be a separate package for SciTools that doesn't install all the other packages. I have therefore created a new SciTools package for Sage, called scitools-0.4.spkg. The package depends on Gnuplot.py 1.8 and I have created a Sage package for this as well. Both packages can be downloaded from http://folk.uio.no/johannr/tmp/ . It would be very nice if SciTools was included into Sage, perhaps in the experimental section for now. I think the scitools++ package can be removed.
Thanks, Johannes Ring P.S. For those that don't know about SciTools, it's a Python package with lots of useful tools for scientific computing and it is built on top of other Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, and Scientific Python. SciTools also includes a plotting interface called Easyviz (http://code.google.com/p/scitools/wiki/EasyvizDocumentation), which is a unified interface to other plotting packages like Gnuplot, Matplotlib, VTK, and several others. It can do both curve plots and more advanced 2D/3D visualization of scalar and vector fields and it has simple, Matlab-like syntax. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
