Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] fortran scripts

[Christopher Schwan <cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de>]

Hi,

On Thursday 12 August 2010 17:37:34 Steven Trogdon wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I had apparently installed the Sage-provided scripts
> 
> sage-g77_shared
> sage_fortran
> 
> when Sage was under /opt to get some fortran functionality from within the
> notebook. Of course that functionality is missing with Sage under /usr.
> Both scripts are needed. See, from the notebook,
> 
> 	Help -> Fast Static Versions -> Numerical Sage -> f2py
> 
> for a cut-N-paste example. This example is included (command line version)
> in inline_fortran.py, the InlineFortran class under
> site-packages/sage/misc. The sage-g77_shared script calls sage_fortran and
> sage-g77_shared is hardcoded in the InlineFortran class. I suppose it is
> somewhat awkward to have these two scripts, but thought I would point out
> that some functionality is missing without them. Perhaps there is a better
> way, without messing around with the InlineFortran class, to achieve the
> same result.

Thats absolutely right - thank you for pointing that out. I have added these 
files for now, but I think I will write a fix so we wont need these.

> 
> Steve

Christopher