Hmm, I see the argument between the researcher (William) who wants to
*use* sympow, and the code porter (David) who wants to *port* sympow.

I think I will remain on the fence on this one, pull up a chair, grab
a beer from the fridge..... :-)

On 17 Aug, 01:31, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> On 08/17/10 12:24 AM, William Stein wrote:
>
> > I would rather have a windows port than not having a Windows port.
> > Problems may be created as a result.   But since Cephes is only used
> > on Windows, the problems will be less than the current problem which
> > is that Sage doesn't work at all on Windows.
>
> I think Peter Jeremy is intending using Cephes on FreeBSD. I think there will 
> be
> more people willing and able to debug Cephes than SYMPOW.
>
> To maintain SYMPOW, you need a skill set very few people process.
>
> Dave

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