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Remove SymPy dependency

Open chrisrichardson opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

Original report by Garth N. Wells (Bitbucket: garth-wells, GitHub: garth-wells).

Using SymPy in FIAT is like using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.

It's a heavy dependency that imports a lot of files, which can slow import.

Also, the SymPy Debian/Ubuntu packages pull in a lot of very large package dependencies, e.g. texlive. This blows out the size of virtual images and Linux containers.

chrisrichardson avatar Jun 03 '15 08:06 chrisrichardson