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From: Francois D. <fra...@un...> - 2008-02-13 19:33:35
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Dear Nicolas, > In short, I have been amazed by the dynamism of the growing SAGE > community. Furthermore, our experiments (partial reimplementation of > our crystal code) seem to indicate that there would be no major > technical issues to port our code: most of the idioms and paradigms we > use have some natural equivalent. On the other hand, porting 7 years > worth of work in MuPAD, and more importantly migrating the community > will be a lot of work and worst may cause the loss of users and > developers. I confirm that the community looks very dynamic and really want to produce a software for a large spectrum of researchers. They seem to have these critical weight which permits to convince people using our stuff. > Now is the time to take a decision: > > - Should we switch to SAGE? I have not a lot of background on the development of computer algebra system and I was not there at the beginning of the project MuPAD-Combinat but my feeling is that it can be a good idea to switch and try to catch the train. > - Would you be ready to invest some time into learning a new system? No problem for me and I am learning python since 2 months. > - Would you be ready to invest some time into the porting itself? I can participate to the porting of the Symmetric Functions part with Mike Hansen and the stuff around ModuleWithSeveralBases. > - What are the features that you would need to be ported before > you switched? Mike has already done a good job ! > - As Anne suggested, we have an opportunity now, since Jason, Mike, > Anne and myself are altogether at MSRI, and Florent, > Jean-Christophe and Fran�ois will visit us at some point. > I plan to work deeper on symmetric functions with Mike Hansen during the workshop at MSRI > To do list (Mike, please update!): > > - Symmetric functions [ 25%] > - k-Schur & the like [ 0%] I think k-Schur functions can be almost done at MSRI with Mike. Francois |