Re: [ELPA] Re: SageMath and Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu> writes:
>
>> Dear Emacs developers,
>>
>> I want to ask opinions about including support for SageMath in Emacs or
>> GNU ELPA.
>>
>> SageMath is a niche software but I think the niche is a very important
>> one. It is also the best computer algebra system which is also free
>> software and hence important to advance free software in a field
>> dominated proprietary software. (This dominance is especially sad since
>> proprietary software is a very shaky foundation for scientific
>> research.)
>>
>> The SageMath project project provides Emacs modes both for source files
>> and repl. They code can be found at
>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-shell-mode
>>
>> It is a large code base but looking at it a year or so ago, I realized
>> that most of the code was implementing functionality that is by now
>> included in the python.el in Emacs. SageMath is a thin wrapper around Python
>> and as a result basic support for it can be provided by setting some
>> variables provided by python.el appropriately.
>>
>> I wrote such a wrapper around python.el which is hosted at
>> https://codeberg.org/rahguzar/sage-mode
>>
>> There is more code there than needed because I wanted to change some
>> behaviors of python.el but now I think those deviations should be
>> removed. As a result I think basic functionality can be provided by
>> addition of 200-300 lines in python.el (or a separate file requiring
>> it). If there is an interest in providing out of box support for
>> SageMath I can prepare such a patch.
>>
>> I have been meaning to send this email for a while but never came around
>> to it. I am sending this now because I saw Eli's message about a pretest
>> for Emacs 30 being imminent. It might be already too late for Emacs 30
>> but if the pretest is a week or two away there might be time.
>>
>> If inclusion in Emacs core is not considered a good option, I will like
>> to contribute support to ELPA. I would like to hear opinions of the
>> people maintaining the current SageMath support and opened an issue at
>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-shell-mode/issues/80 but I haven't
>> heard from them (it has only been a few days).
>
> It certainly can be added to ELPA, but I guess it would be easier to
> discuss the matter if you could provide a patch for emacs.git, if that
> is not too much work.

Ping?

>> Thanks,
>> Rahguzar
>>
>>

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