Pablo De Napoli wrote: > It would be really nice if we can include the new weapper for the lcalc > library. > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5396 > > [marked ad "with patch, neeeds review"] > > Pablo
I have been less than impressed with lcalc itself. Of all the packages I have met in Sage, it seems to have presented with more than its fair share of problems. * At one point there was a non-portable option to suppress warnings from the assembler. I fixed that, so it would actually build on Solaris with gcc, with either the Sun or GNU assembler. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6609 * I note it used the -no-deprecated (or similar option) to hide the fact the code is deprecated. * It will not build on Solaris with the Sun compiler http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7065 * It will not build on HP-UX with gcc http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7178 * If you run 'lint' on the sources, one find numerous variables that are declared but never used. IMHO, lcalc needs a major overhall. I always find it worrying when the source is deprecated, efforts are made to suppress warnings, it is not portable, variables are unused ...It always makes me wonder what other issues might exist, which I do not know about. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
