>From Bill Page: > > > > > * Bug (that is, bug in this version not present in the > > > official one) MUST be reported to vanuxemg at yahoo dot fr > > > and not to the official Axiom bug tracking systems, > > > > Do you prefer this for your own personal reasons? I do not see > > why your work should not be included along with the other current > > and experimental version of Axiom. It is possible to make special > > provision (i.e. new categories) in the Axiom wiki IssueTracker > > system to refer to your new version so that we can easily > > distinguish to which version the issue applies.
Nothing personal. But for now the code is not public so this is problematic. I prefer to not pollute official Axiom bugs tracker. > > > * This is not the same version than the official one (the > > > code differs), > > > > I do not know what is really "official" any more. Juergen Weiss' > > experimental version of Axiom on CMUCL has been discussed before > > on this list and his original source code has been distributed. > > Some of his changes have been incorporated into the "official" > > sources in available via CVS and at SourceForge. > > > > > * This is not a fork (code in this version is destined to be > > > included in the official version), > > > * The source code is NOT available (sorry, not yet), > > > > I think it would be perfect if you would make this source available > > as a branch in SVN at SourceForge. > > > > > * Do not discuss issues related to this version on the official > > > Axiom mailing lists unless this is explicitly permitted, > > > > As Tim Daly has already pointed out: no permission is required > > to discuss any Axiom related issue on the "official" Axiom mailing > > lists. In fact, discussing Axiom any other way seems rather > > pointless to me. > > > > > * This version contains a LOT of bugs, > > > > I think that this is not a surprise and does not differ from other > > current experimental versions of Axiom. > > > > > * This version is based on an "experimental" version of SBCL so > > > you'll contribute to SBCL too if you find SBCL bugs, but do > > > know that all of this is experimental, > > > > Great. I am very glad that someone has finally begun to work > > publicly with Axiom on another version of Lisp. > > > > > * Do not trust its results. > > > > > > > That applies to ALL computer algebra systems - even the expensive > > commercial ones. > > > > > > > > It can be downloaded from: > > > http://perso.orange.fr/parabola/axiom-sbcl-win.tar.bz2 > > > > > > To use it, untar/unbzip2 it in a directory without space in its > > > name (full path without space). Export the environment variable > > > AXIOM, it must point to the directory that contains the algebra, > > > bin etc... directories. > > > > > > So for example: > > > > > > set AXIOM=c:\somewhere\axiom-sbcl-win > > > > > > and you can start it with > > > > > > c:\somewhere\axiom-sbcl-win\bin\interpsys > > > > > > > Thank very much for making this available. > > > > > > > > One of the most important thing to know is that this work > > > is based on the work of Juergen Weiss (among others of course), > > > he "ported" parts of Axiom to the CMU Common Lisp system. > > > > > > Many, many thanks to you, Juergen Weiss. > > > > > > > Yes, as I have said before: Juergen's work on the CMU version > > was (and still is) critically important to the current open > > source version of Axiom. I think it would be great if someone > > would take on the job of making the source for the CMU version > > available in the SourceForge SVN repository. I think there may > > be some people who would be willing to test it further and to > > contribute changes and improvements. There are, already, a lot of versions of Axiom (gold, silver, build-improvements, wh-sandbox...), I do not want to add yet another one. Don't know how this has to be handled. Greg ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
