It's worth pointing out that the key to it being active is not so much whether or not you yourself plan to work on it, but rather how much of a community you are able to build around it. If you really encourage contributions from the people who have shown interest, then I think it will be successful even outside of SymPy.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't there is any way to know how active the development will be. We >> presented it at two conferences for the first time in the last couple of >> months and have some people showing interest because of that. But for now it >> is just the core devs side project and we use it in our research. > > As to sympy.mechanics, my recommendation, based on my experience with > PyDy so far, is to wait till the late fall, > like November and see how the development goes. If it stays active, > then by all means > you should maintain your own project. Also so that you can include more > things, > for example some compiled code, and so on. > If, on the other hand, the development slows down, as it has in the > past between the summers, > it might be a good idea to keep it in sympy for now. > > As to PyDy Viz, by looking at the code > (https://github.com/PythonDynamics/pydy-viz), I would probably keep it > outside. > You can put sympy as a git submodule, and Travis will automatically test it. > > It really depends on how active the development is --- if it is > active, then it is easy to keep sympy.mechanics working with recent > versions of sympy (in the git submodule). If it is not very active, > then it might be easier to let the rest of sympy team > to maintain sympy.mechanics. Even things like Python 3 support, you > get this for free by being part of sympy. > But if you are active, then it is not a big deal to do all this work yourself. > > Ondrej > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PyDy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pydy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
