[Debian-science-sagemath] pari-sage or pari ?

[Harald Schilly]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
> Is Sage a distribution ?

Hi, sorry to drop in on this as a lurker unannounced, but in my
opinion, SageMath is definitely a distribution. It's not something
that's used very widely, but for a narrow target of higher mathematics
(of a certain kind) it is very useful. It setups a rather closed
environment, where all components are tested to work well together and
have a clear version number (that can be used in scientific
publications). Drawback is, that all that is more like organically
grown and detached from the "outside world". That's definitely a bad
aspect, but hey, it still solves a lot of the tiny issues that arise,
when you try to do computational mathematics in those areas.

-- harald