Has anyone considered linking some of Axiom's functions with MPFR? If not I think this library should be looked into. It seams very small but it is LGPL.
Yigal On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:59 -0500, Bill Page wrote: > On January 30, 2006 8:21 PM Yigal Weinstein wrote: > > > ... > > The one way gpl'd programs have an advantage on proprietary > > software is that they can use existing gpl'd programs without > > worrying about licenses etc.. For instance consider all the > > work done in Fortran like quadpack etc.. Axiom if asked for > > a numerical result could if linking was considered could use > > the existing libraries to compute practically any function. > > > > In fact this is just the strategy used by the proprietary Axiom. > > To link it to NAG was what was done. There are plenty of high > > quality libraries that can be used for numerical approximations > > in Fortran that are gpl: lapack is but one of them. > > I agree completely that a replacement for the NAG interface is > urgently needed for the open source version of Axiom. > > I would be very pleased to help anyone who is motivated to > develop an interface to a LGPL library that would provide some > of this lost functionality. > > Regards, > Bill Page. > > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer