On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:04:39PM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: >I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no >positive votes since then. I would have thought that by now, if there >were any interest in having it in cygwin, there would have been a >positive vote. I understand that 5 are required.
I don't really grok this paragraph. The point of voting is to see if there is interest. If no one voted then, yes, that would indicate that there was no interest. >As I said before, Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic >geometry research. Based on Groebner bases, it provides algorithms for >computing homological invariants of rings and modules. Home page: >http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/". In the past it has been included >in Fedora 8, 9, 10, see >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/Macaulay2/. I don't see it in Fedora 10 but it looks like it was included in the "extras" package for older Fedoras. >Let me know *soon*, as we hope to release 1.2 by the end of the month, >and if it's not approved for cygwin, I'll just provide it, as I did >with 1.1, on my own "setup" compatible repository. It's a pretty simple process. You need the votes, then, if you get the votes, you need a "GTG" on the packaging. It sounds like you don't have either but the votes are the most crucial. cgf