Please do!
On 11/13/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldn't find anything either. It only states > > >># mathguide Version 1.0 -- 2006-04-05 > > >># Copyright 2004-2006 Hartmut Ring > > which doesn't sound that good. Mailing ring sounds like a good idea. Should > I do it? > > > > > On Nov 13, 2007 12:41 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
