On 11/13/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original Webpage says "[mathGUIde] ist Freeware und wird mit allen > Quellen verbreitet" which means that "it's freeware and is distributed with > all the sources". > So it doesn't state any licensing details e.g. whether you may modify the > source etc. > Maybe I should download it and look into the sourcefiles? There could be > some hidden licensing information.
Please do. I did and didn't find anything. But everything is in German, so my search wasn't very useful if there is some information in with other things. Might be worth emailing Ring. If it is opensource then perhaps it could be adapted to be used as a windows SAGE gui interface? > > Fabio > > > On Nov 13, 2007 3:53 AM, William Stein < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2007 2:50 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried emailing the author of mathguide several times a few years ago, > > > with no response. Of course, my email was in English, which might have > been the > > > problem. In any case, I did not get the impression that it was open > source. > > > Either I am wrong or I presume this guy got permission from the > > > mathguide author to distribute a derived work based on his code? > > > > It's probably open source I guess, since the web page says > > (translated) "Freeware is and with all sources is spread". Perhaps a > > German speaker could look at > > > > http://www.math.uni-siegen.de/ring/mathGUIde > > and confirm this. > > > > William > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > > > > On Nov 12, 2007 9:33 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2007 1:35 AM, Téragone < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm also working on a GUI for pari/gp. I started with mathGuide from > which I > > > > > removed the Python plugin > > > > > > > > Wow, thanks for pointing out mathGuide, which I had never heard about > before. > > > > Since this is in English, I translation of the web page > > > > http://www.math.uni-siegen.de/ring/mathGUIde > > > > is here: > > > > > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.math.uni-siegen.de%2Fring%2FmathGUIde%2Findex.html > > > > > > > > It's interesting how that project is fairly similar to Sage > > > > (http://sagemath.org) > > > > in many ways. E.g., see this screenshot which looks very much like > > > > the screen shot for mathGUIde: > > > > > http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage-screenshot.png > > > > > > > > >. I call gp in application mode, not in library > > > > > mode. > > > > > I use most of the code of gp.c and I redirect the output to a > global > > > > > string. Maybe not the best way, but it's easy to code and it work. > > > > > > > > Interestingly the Sage GP GUI also uses GP rather than the PARI > > > > C library for the GUI (though Sage also uses PARI). Anyway, > > > > here is a screenshot from Sage that actually looks a lot like > > > > yours below: > > > > > > > > > http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage-pari.png > > > > > > > > > For now, my new code is source compatible only. All the > modifications have > > > > > been include in #ifdef/#endif so the "original" gp compile and work > with no > > > > > modification. > > > > > Still many hours before it will work correctly. I use Qt so it must > be > > > > > possible to port it on many OS. I only tested it on Linux. Here a > screenshot > > > > > : > > > > > > > > > > http://pages.videotron.com/teragone/gui.png > > > > > > > > > > Please, let me know if you have interest for that. > > > > > > > > I'm excited that there is so much enthusiasm and energy for open > source > > > > projects / guis, etc., related to mathematical software right now. I > wonder > > > > if you've solved any problems I don't know how to solve (and > conversely) > > > > related to such things? > > > > > > > > -- William > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > William Stein > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > University of Washington > > http://wstein.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
