Re: interest for PARI/GP Jupyter notebook ?

I have used Jeroen's pari kernel, though not recently.  It is a very good
platform for doing any kind of demo, for example of new pari/gp
capabilities at an atelier, since you can have text cells as well as code
cells so that's all you need for your talk.

I am not a good person to help make this work though, since I do not have
the necessary expertise.  When I just started up jupyter-notebook on my
laptop it was not offering me a pari kernel, though I certainly did once
have it working on the same machie, and I have completely forgotten what to
do to install an extra kernel.

I have not tried Edgar's kernel -- from what Pascal said that might be
easier.

John

On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 15:34, Pascal Molin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I started using pari-jupyter two months ago, and immediately switched to
> Edgar's version because I had problems with the main pari-jupyter
> (I do not remember precisely the issues, maybe it was slow or did not
> support threads). I also think a xeus version would be nice.
> Anyway I think I will use it on a regular basis now and could provide
> feedback from myself and from students, and a bit of testing.
>
> Pascal
>
> Le ven. 12 mai 2023 à 15:34, Edgar Costa <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I strongly believe that having a jupyter kernel lows the barrier of entry
>> to almost any language, and thus having one is worthwhile.
>> I am not a regular gp/pari user to help you with this one. I rarely write
>> any gp code, I usually call it from Magma/Sage/Bash.
>> However, whenever I need to write more than one line command, I do it via
>> some jupyter kernel, as I never remember the syntax, and this is a quick
>> way to figure out what works.
>>
>>
>> The Xeus version is quite tempting, as it is much more natural for
>> gp/pari.
>> However, cypari issues should get fixed regardless, as these have broader
>> impacts.
>>
>> Best,
>> Edgar
>>
>> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:41 AM Bill Allombert <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear PARI developpers,
>>>
>>> Some time ago, Jeroen Demeyer has written a PARI jupyter kernel which is
>>> now
>>> maintained mainly by Vincent Delecroix.
>>> <https://github.com/sagemath/pari-jupyter>
>>> this allows to create Jupyter notebook that uses PARI/GP.
>>>
>>> However I do not think Vincent is actually using it, and I know nobody
>>> that really use it, so I do not know how good is the user experience.
>>>
>>> This kernel is based on python and cypari which causes some technical
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> There have been two technically simpler alternatives, one using the GP
>>> binary
>>> directly (by Edgar Costa) and one using Xeus <
>>> https://github.com/jupyter-xeus>
>>> and libpari.
>>>
>>> However before pursuing this further, we need someone that is willing to
>>> use
>>> this kernel for actual applications, giving feedback and willing to test
>>> new
>>> version which compiling and installing them.
>>>
>>> So am I looking for someone interested to help.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bill.
>>>
>>