> Having glanced at the other projects this one seems to be the most > promising, but it certainly seems rather strange regarding build > system and so on. I.e. I did not see any obvious way to build the > kernel as a library for example. There is no meaningful documentation, > but a longer worded version of RTFS :). So I did poke around in the > makefile and build some project foo I made up. Compilation of the 3.0 > release instantly failed because a 4 line comment was in > fundamental_group.c:
Michael, It sounds like you're using the version from GeometryGames.org: http://www.geometrygames.org/SnapPea-old/SnapPea3.html This has been superseded by the version at www.math.uic.edu/~t3m/ One of the things that Marc and I fixed was the build system, so the latter should compile in the usual pythonic way cd SnapPeaPython/ sage -python setup.py build sage -python setup.py install at least on Unix-type operating systems. Let me know if it doesn't work for you. > In any case: Besides the obvious build system cleanup required for > this to stand a chance to become standard in Sage the licenses has the > be clear. Currently I see > > [...] > > If that is the case and the license still forbids commercial use there > is no chance this code will ever make it into standard Sage. It is > also worrisome that the last dated release (3.0d3) was dates in 2000. Jeff later relicensed the code under GPL 2+. He continues to fix bugs in the kernel, and Marc and I continue to make small tweaks to the Python interface (most recently in July of 2008, according to CVS). As I mentioned, Marc and I have a new version of the Python interface using Cython which should be a lot easier to maintain. We hope to have it up on web shortly, but for now you can grab a copy at http://math.uic.edu/~t3m/SnapPy.tgz This is called SnapPy instead of SnapPea since it's not backward compatible. Best, Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
