Valery Pipin wrote:
> Jaap Spies wrote:
>> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
>> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/components.html
> I'd love to try it if all those components were distributed separately.
> There are many reason for this
> 1)84Mb ? source code and your site is slow
>
Not so much to have all batteries included. Try a mirror site, e.g.
http://sage.scipy.org/sage/
> 2)The particular user need only a few componets, e.g. , I would use
> python, numpy and maxima, mathplotlib.
>
All the other goodies are there. If you don' need them, don' use them.
It is free software.
> 3) Most linux distribution have python, numpy, maxima and etc.
>
From a system integrator's standpoint a possible nightmare:
different versions, non-standard implementations. Some
systems are extremely difficult to build without glitches.
> 4) Sage use clisp to compile maxima (at least it was so 1 year ago). This is
> really slowest choice. I admit that many other people can prefer clisp over
> sbcl and cmucl. But it is always better to have a choice in this option
> because maxima gives this choice.
> ....
>
I do not know much about lisp in all it's variations, but maxima in SAGE builds
on clisp on a variety of architectures.
Jaap