On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:53 AM Gaby wrote: > > Tim Daly wrote writes: > > [...] > > | There are a large number of "fixes" being applied which appear > | to have nothing to do with autotools, such as the sttaylor fix > | and the sage change. Worse yet, it appears that the sage > | connection won't work with gold so sage users cannot get the > | latest axiom "gold" release. > > Which "Sage connection" patch do you have in mind? >
I recently prepared a source package (spkg) for Sage that allows Sage users to easily install Axiom by just doing $ sage -I axiom4sage-0.1.spkg Sage supervises build Axiom from source - well actually it just calls a script included in the spkg - but to sage users this should "feel" very easy because they are used to doing the same thing with several other optional Sage packages. axiom4sage-0.1.spkg is built using the experimental build- improvements Axiom source distribution because I wanted to test it and to take advantage of the flexibility of the autoconf tools to allow Axiom to be built on as wide a range of platforms as possible. In my opinion trying to do this with the current Axiom "Gold" would have been too unpredictable on previously untested machines. Anyway, it's alse a matter of release-often- release-early ... Sage itself is currently in a very rapid state of growth, so I don't think most Sage users are too worried about using possibly unstable (experimental) software. Also they are likely to be quite helpful in reporting bugs. I consider Axiom Gold to be a more "conservative" alternative and not of as much interest to (most) developers. Of course we need to define appropriately what we mean by "developer"? :-) Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
