Bug#712924: ITP: python3-sympy -- Computer Algebra System (CAS) in Python 3

[Nicolas Pourcelot <nicolas.pourcelot@gmail.com>]

Hello Georges,

during the last two years, I've started to rewritte wxgeometrie using pyQt instead of wxpython, to improve both stability and UI design.

This new Qt-powered branch is called Geophar, and is now mature enough, so old wxgeometrie won't be maintained anymore.

I planned to work on a debian package for geophar this summer.

Considering Python 3 support, yes, this will be hard work I presume.

This is on the road map since matplotlib 1.2 was released a few months ago (now all geophar dependencies support python 3).

However, I'm not sure geophar itself will support python 3 before next summer (2014).

A last note concerning sympy : unfortunately, sympy version 0.7.2 is too buggy to be used by geophar/wxgeometrie.
A bug was introduced in sympy trunk a few commits before 0.7.2 release, and corrected a few commits after, but sympy release process is freezed for sometimes until new release framework is finshed, so I don't expect any release soon.

Best regards,

Nicolas

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Georges Khaznadar <georges.khaznadar@free.fr> wrote:

Hello Nicolas,

I write in English since Thomas Kluyver reads this e-mail too.
You are the author of the package wxgeometrie, which depends mostly on
sympy, and you contributed also to sympy recently.

Would you estimate it as a hard work to migrate wxgeometrie to python3?

Best regards,                   Georges.

Thomas Kluyver a écrit :
> Package: wnpp
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
>
> * Package name    : python3-sympy
>   Version         : 0.7.2
>   Upstream Author : Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://sympy.org/
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Computer Algebra System (CAS) in Python 3
>
> SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics (manipulation). It aims
> to
> become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code
> as
> simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible.
> SymPy
> is written entirely in Python and does not require any external libraries,
> except optionally for plotting support.
> .
> This is the Python 3 version of the package

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