[Axiom-developer] (no subject)

2005-06-26 Thread daly
Kai, As I mentioned it is important to the long term goals of the project that we document the new work we are doing. The original developers, including myself, did not do a good job documenting the system which makes it very difficult to maintain and modify. Going forward we don't want to continu

[Axiom-developer] RE: AxiomUI project funded

2005-06-26 Thread Bill Page
On June 26, 2005 5:18 AM Kai Kaminski wrote: > ... > It seems obvious to me that using a web browser to replace hyperdoc > is a good idea. A browser can also be used to implement a GUI, > although I would love to see a portable GUI written in CL using > wxWidgets bindings (which don't exist yet).

[Axiom-developer] RE: AxiomUI development process

2005-06-26 Thread Bill Page
On June 26, 2005 12:22 PM Kai Kaminski wrote: > before we start working on AxiomUI we should work out how > to organize development. This is a quick list of some thoughts > and questions: > > I don't know MathAction very well, so I don't know what role > it could play. I assume that was question?

Re: [Axiom-developer] congrats

2005-06-26 Thread Kai Kaminski
Hi Tim, thanks for your mail. A second piece of advice is to "release often". I know it feels like criticism when many people "jump in" but there are a large number of very clever and motivated people on this list who can be very helpful. I'm planning to do that. When I said earlier that "al

[Axiom-developer] (no subject)

2005-06-26 Thread C . Frangos
I have tried to compile axiom on an amd64 3500+ machine running suse linux 9.2 (64 bit), but it did not work (see below). Is it possible to compile axiom on this machine using 32 bit libraries only ? Any assistance on what to do would be much appreciated - thanks. Regards, C. Frangos. Outpu

[Axiom-developer] Axiom on SUSE

2005-06-26 Thread daly
It appears that you do not have the developer libraries for X11 installed. I have the RPM for RedHat but not for SUSE. There are a set of libraries for X11 that are not needed for normal X11 use but Axiom needs them because it include X11 code. Tim ___

[Axiom-developer] congrats

2005-06-26 Thread daly
Kai, I'm actually less concerned about your design decisions or your choice of tools, even XML if you feel you must. Do whatever it takes to solve some part of the problem. Believe it or not one of my main concerns is that the code be well documented or should I say that "the document is well cod

[Axiom-developer] congrats

2005-06-26 Thread daly
Kai, I'll be in Berlin the first week of August. If you're anywhere near there I can buy you a beer and introduce you to my son who also lives in Germany and is looking to port Axiom to ansi common lisp. Tim ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-dev

[Axiom-developer] [#184 Complex argument is false.] (new)

2005-06-26 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/184ComplexArgumentIsFalse/diff -- argument (-%i)computes %pi/2 and not -%pi/2 argument (-1+0%i) computes 0 and not %pi argument (-1) fails, perhaps it's possible to add an automatic coerce ? Francois Maltey. -- forwarded from http://page