On Dec 29, 10:16 am, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >What distribution license does the rosetta tex file have?
>
> >> Modified BSD.
>
> >> I'd like Sage to be in the list so people from other systems
> >> can have a clue what form they might type in Sage to get
> >> similar results.
>
> >I was wondering why the Rosetta document lists GMP as a system?
>
Hi Tim,
> I don't remember. It should certainly disappear.
>
> I used to distribute Rosetta CDs which contained approximately
> 100 open source CAS-like or CAS-wannabe systems. Toward the end
> of the Rosetta CD effort I started to document the pile.
>
> The Doyen project <http://sourceforge.net/projects/doyencd> was
> eventually intended to be a "Live CD" science platform (ala Sage). I
> had discussions with Michael Tiemann at RedHat about distributing such
> a Live CD science platform at scientific conferences. The hope was
> that people would be able to use the distributed software as a basis
> for reported research work, thus making the results reproducible. I
> included some of the CAS systems (and the Rosetta document) on the
> first two of the ISSAC CDs, which I produced.
I do remember seeing some DVD via a friend with a similar goal
produced by a japanese group that also got distributed at a
conference. I didn't attend that conference myself and I cannot recall
details like the name, but it was roughly two years ago.
> The rosetta.tex started from Michael Wester's original version (with
> his permission) and added some systems.
Ok, it did look very familiar and I now figured out that I had seen
his web page at
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/EXT/ASTEX/astex/doc/en/rosetta/htmla/roseta.htm
which also seems to contain a bunch of additional systems not in your
version.
> The plan was to add many
> systems so users of one system could "get a clue" how to form a loop,
> do an assignment, compute an integral, etc. with a minimum of
> explanation.
>
> Around the same time I was starting this, NAG released their
> source code to me and I set up the Axiom open source project.
> This took up all available time and the Rosetta effort starved.
>
> Since Sage is effectively (or, rather much more effectively) using
> the same strategy of making all of the systems available I thought
> it might be worthwhile to update the document with Sage information.
> You might consider making a Live CD of Sage. Doyen contains instructions
> and Alfredo Portes does excellent work. He has carefully documented
> the build process.
We used to have a live CD version, but the effort faltered, too. It
might be worth a try to recruit somebody around here who would like to
do that job. I looked at the Doyen project on sf.net and I couldn't
find any files, except a bunch of Axiom files and art work in SVN. I
guess
http://daly.axiom-developer.org/doyen/
would be a better source of information ;)
> Unfortunately I'm not savvy enough with Sage to fill in the tables.
> I'm hoping someone will take a few minutes to provide the updates.
>
> I feel that such a document would be a useful contribution to Sage.
> In fact, it is probably more useful to Sage than to Axiom.
>
> Tim
Cheers,
Michael
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