Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2006/3/30, Antoine Hersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about SVK( http://svk.elixus.org/ ), it seem to be based on > Subversion plus distributed a la Arch > It is based on PERL a more reasonable dependency that Haskell. I am on SVK's mailing list for several months now. SVK is interesting

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Antoine Hersen
Hello, What about SVK( http://svk.elixus.org/ ), it seem to be based on Subversion plus distributed a la Arch It is based on PERL a more reasonable dependency that Haskell. I have never used it( RCS cover most of my need), so it is just presenting another option. Antoine Hersen __

Re: [Axiom-developer] Developing domain

2006-03-29 Thread Antoine Hersen
Hello > > Is there a nice iterative process to develop domain, I am > > getting tired of quiting axiom deleting the directories and > > restarting axiom. > > ??? > > I use just: > > while unhappy repeat > )sys vi file.spad > ... code ... > )co file.spad > ... test ... vi (j

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Page
On March 29, 2006 9:24 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > | What exactly do you advocate and why? > > SVN. > > In many aspects that I care about directly for working on Axiom, > I find it a better tool than tla. > darcs. I find it a better tool tha

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | What exactly do you advocate and why? SVN. In many aspects that I care about directly for working on Axiom, I find it a better tool than tla. -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.o

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Page
On March 29, 2006 5:09 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Maybe some people are very accustomed to SExpressions, I am > not. I am perfectly happy with Lists whose elements have a > particular type, for example, "List(Boolean)". Sexpressions > are already a bit more complicated. And I cannot belief that >

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> Thanks - that would definitely bypass the problem when next I get the > time to work on Axiom. Would it be possible for you to merge all the > Windows work back into CVS? I'll bring it up with Bill who maintains that branch. --t ___ Axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] OSDL Fellowship Fund

2006-03-29 Thread root
Perhaps some of us could create a proposal for Axiom funding of students? OSDL Fellowship Fund The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has established the OSDL Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to software developers working on Linux and open source community projects. Under the ausp

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
cool. I'll look into the vmplayer solution. --t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> > You have a problem with an open source tool. > You have the source. > You have the skill. > Fix the code and send the patches to arch. Why waste my time on something that goes against what I think is the best policy and that I believe doesn't need to be done? > It is, after all, exactly what

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> These are hard problems (at least for me) and it all takes time. You're a hard worker! I recently ran LTK 0.78 on Windows with GCL 2.7.0 but the latest 0.8x defeated the GCL compiler. One other interesting note is that following a lead in a message on C.L.L I recently tried running Debian with

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> I am also saying that Arch is useless on Windows. > > Believe me, if you don't like tla on Unix platforms, you would abhor it > under Windows. The only way I was able to undo the mess it made of my > file system under Cygwin (exacerbated I admit by a network domain change > which stuffed up) wa

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> Just as a friendly suggestion over the back garden fence, rather than > trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by making Axiom X based on > Windows, wouldn't your time (as a well regarded highly productive and > uncommonly competent lisp programmer) be better spent either: > >i) pickin

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> The lack of upkeep on the server copy of a branch seems to be > completely independent of the issue of which maintenance > system to use. I'm arguing precisely against the shunting aside of separate subprojects to which Arch's alleged capabilities contributed. I see both processes as therefore

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
PS. > the X-on-windows effort, Just as a friendly suggestion over the back garden fence, rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by making Axiom X based on Windows, wouldn't your time (as a well regarded highly productive and uncommonly competent lisp programmer) be better spent

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> > The only "subprojects" in the axiom project are specific > > branches that have been created to separate various > > developers who planned to work on separate threads. These do > > not impact the main branch in any way until the work is > > complete and I merge the two branches. For exampl

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Tim. > The only "subprojects" in the axiom project are specific > branches that have been created to separate various > developers who planned to work on separate threads. These do > not impact the main branch in any way until the work is > complete and I merge the two branches. For exampl

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
Mike, > I want to say that tla/GNU arch is not at all looking good as a source > control system (it's problematic on Windows and looks like it is barely > alive as an on-going project) and I would suggest dropping it as a tool > for the Axiom project. I'm currently working on projects that use CV

[Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Ralf. > what do you want to say by your comment? I want to say that tla/GNU arch is not at all looking good as a source control system (it's problematic on Windows and looks like it is barely alive as an on-going project) and I would suggest dropping it as a tool for the Axiom project. I am

Re: [Axiom-developer] Developing domain

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Antoine, I hope you are not writing SPAD, but Aldor code. In the latter case, you can simply develop without starting Axiom at all. All you need is libaxiom.al and axiom.as. I hope I can show you some setup at the Axiom workshop. Ralf On 03/29/2006 10:46 AM, Antoine Hersen wrote: Is there a

[Axiom-developer] Re: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Mike, what do you want to say by your comment? Ralf On 03/29/2006 06:47 AM, Mike Thomas wrote: Hi all. Why don't you use tla? See the section "Criticisms" on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Arch and then the amount of work going on at: http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/gnu-arch

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 03/24/2006 06:54 PM, Page, Bill wrote: Maybe S-expression can be defined in Aldor without imports from foreign lisp something like this (very roughly): [snip] But then you would just be re-inventing part of Lisp inside Aldor and there doesn't seem to be much point since you can get all this

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Bill, ... I am proposing to remove NIL (or at least to hide it in some low level library), since in my eyes that sounds not very mathematical. If I want an empty list, it is much better to say "empty$List(...)" than "NIL$Lisp". Don't you agree? Sure. It's only a name. Maybe the notation:

[Axiom-developer] Re: PATCH: #248 Bug#347199: axiom-doc: Book is all-monospaceafter page 1019

2006-03-29 Thread root
applied. fixed in the next release --t --- ../axiom-old/src/doc/book.pamphlet 2005-08-14 14:05:13.002428312 +0200 +++ src/doc/book.pamphlet 2006-03-29 18:41:59.040346128 +0200 @@ -62233,7 +62233,7 @@ These commands return the state of the interactive environment to that immediately after

[Axiom-developer] PATCH: #248 Bug#347199: axiom-doc: Book is all-monospaceafter page 1019

2006-03-29 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Hi, Attached is a patch that has to be applied on src/doc/boot.pamphlet. For information see: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/248Bug347199AxiomDocBookIsAllMonospaceafterPage1019 The author is Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers, Greg --- ../axiom-old/src/doc/book.pamphlet 2005-08-

Re: [Axiom-developer] Developing domain

2006-03-29 Thread root
)sys rm -rf FOO.erlib FOO.NRLIB ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] Developing domain

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Page
On March 29, 2006 3:46 AM Antoine Hersen wrote: > > Is there a nice iterative process to develop domain, I am > getting tired of quiting axiom deleting the directories and > restarting axiom. ??? I use just: while unhappy repeat )sys vi file.spad ... code ... )co file.spad ...

[Axiom-developer] Developing domain

2006-03-29 Thread Antoine Hersen
Hello, Is there a nice iterative process to develop domain, I am getting tired of quiting axiom deleting the directories and restarting axiom. And is there a way to get axiom to execute some script as an argument ? "axiom < some_files" does not work for me. Also do someone know the intedent of