[Axiom-developer] Re: Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Simon Michael
Hi all, sometimes we've struggled, sometimes we stay ahead in the wiki-spam arms race. Bill, you probably know about the recent edits_need_username feature - this has been keeping all my wikis spam free for a while. You should be able to achieve the same if you keep up with the more recent Zwi

[Axiom-developer] offline

2006-04-06 Thread root
I'll be offline and unavailable until Tuesday. Talk amongst yourselves :-) t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby, | | I've created an SVN repository at the sourceforge.net/projects/axiom site. | It is a clone of the CVS version. | | Please create a userid for yourself on sourceforge and | mail the information to me. I'll set you up as an administrator. | | The SVN v

[Axiom-developer] gcl-2.6.7 on debian

2006-04-06 Thread root
Camm, I tried to build Axiom on a debian machine and get: creating makedefc sed: file conftest.s1 line 61: unterminated `s' command creating windows/gcl.iss sed: file conftest.s1 line 61: unterminated `s' command creating windows/sysdir.bat sed: file conftest.s1 line 61: unterminated `s' comma

Re: [Axiom-developer] Latex Package problem

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Mine says \ProvidesPackage{hyperref} [2003/01/22 v6.73n Hypertext links for LaTeX] \ProvidesPackage{keyval} [1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)] That is Standard on Debian Sarge. What do you happen to use? And why do you need that "final" anyway? Ralf On 04/06/2006

Re: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Bob McElrath
Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A more sophisticated, long-term solution is to add code to > > ZWiki to check against SURBL: http://www.surbl.org/ (Spam > > URI Realtime Blocklists) > > I guess that means I am going to have to get around to > updating the ZWiki code on MathAction, right? :

RE: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Page
Bob, On April 6, 2006 3:52 PM you wrote: > ... > there is also the banned_links property of the ZWiki folder, > which can contain regexes that are banned. Are you using > this Bill? No, I did not have this configured. Do you know what version of ZWiki introduced this feature? I am not sure it w

Re: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Bob McElrath
Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On April 6, 2006 7:27 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > > Look at > > > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MathActionDevelopment > > > > it seems that spammers somehow can extract the mathaction > > email-address and write to such a page. > > I have deleted the

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread root
> $ make clean > $ make > > Is that enough or are there special files I have to remove by hand > first? unfortunately, due to the awk scripts (and a failure of the clean stanza) this is not enough. you need to removed two awk scripts and all of the Makefile and Makefile.dvi files in the src direc

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread David MENTRE
Hello Fred, 2006/4/6, Frederic Lehobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, I experience exactly the same failure as Balbir Thomas: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-02/msg00168.html > > I have found > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/131AwkBackslashCausesFailureInSrcAlgebra

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 19:58 +0200, Frederic Lehobey a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:47PM -0400, root wrote: > > I suspect that your failure is the same as Balbir's. > > Did you stop the build and attempt to restart it? > > No I did not (if I remember correctly). But I am usu

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:58:54PM +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > dependencies and cleaned the build only once). To be sure of it I > have started a new round: > > $ make clean > $ make > > Is that enough or are there special files I have to remove by hand > first? Problem still occurs.

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:47PM -0400, root wrote: > I suspect that your failure is the same as Balbir's. > Did you stop the build and attempt to restart it? No I did not (if I remember correctly). But I am usure whether it had really started from scratch again (I think so) after a failur

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread root
I suspect that your failure is the same as Balbir's. Did you stop the build and attempt to restart it? There is a problem with the awk script addition to the src/algebra/Makefile. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lis

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:49:02PM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > Have you checked that the src/algebra/Makefile has the same backslash > issue or a different one? There might a regression in latest awk. The offending lines are not anymore in src/algebra/Makefile. Here is the end of the outpu

Re: [Axiom-developer] Latex Package problem

2006-04-06 Thread root
It appears that your hyperref package does not match my hyperref package. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling Axiom from arch source on Debian sarge

2006-04-06 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:40:17AM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > I am just compiling patch-47 axiom on standard debian sarge. > > My compilation stops in the middle of compiling the documentation and > just continues after I have pressed enter. I wanted to check this and started a compilat

Re: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Hi, I had the same problem with my wiki, which I removed from my website since it was not actively used. A spamfilte (I don't know how to include this into a wiki) however will also filter out many simple changes. Lots of FrontEnd update mails are moved to my local spam filter as some other axiom

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread root
If any other developer feels the desire to maintain their own SVN branch this can also be set up on sourceforge. You can use this for 'public development' if you like. I'd expect that you coordinate with Gaby to have your changes integrated for 'public test and approval'. Before accepting change

RE: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Page
On April 6, 2006 11:32 AM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > Axiom is now available under Arch, CVS, and SVN. > If Bill wants we can also create a DARCS server. > ??? darcs does not require server software. For public access all that is required is a web server. We have already had the axiom--main--1 a

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread root
Axiom is now available under Arch, CVS, and SVN. If Bill wants we can also create a DARCS server. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread root
Gaby, I've created an SVN repository at the sourceforge.net/projects/axiom site. It is a clone of the CVS version. Please create a userid for yourself on sourceforge and mail the information to me. I'll set you up as an administrator. The SVN version is expected to be used as a hotpatch 'latest

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
| See Tailor: http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor By the way, if some people like to favour tla, ... when I experimented a bit with svn and tla, I once had a working copy that was an svn working copy and a tla working copy at the same time. That basically says that it would be easy to upda

Re: [Axiom-developer] operations working in general, but not in special cases -- help needed

2006-04-06 Thread William Sit
Dear Martin: Martin Rubey wrote: > William Sit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I assume you want MatroidCat to be the category of all matroids, > > No, at least not originally. I wanted MatroidCat be the "category" (in the > sense of axiom/aldor) of those domains, which represent matroids. I.e.,

Re: [Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Frederic Lehobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | > It is good to have unstable branch where experiments are | > | > conducted. | | > | > but I think w

[Axiom-developer] SCM discussion (silver branch?)

2006-04-06 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > | > It is good to have unstable branch where experiments are > | > conducted. > | > but I think we need one branch that is unstable but not too unstable. > | > | Th

Re: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Bill, On 04/06/2006 02:06 PM, Bill Page wrote: On April 6, 2006 7:27 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: Look at http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MathActionDevelopment it seems that spammers somehow can extract the mathaction email-address and write to such a page. I have deleted the spam. In fact I

RE: [Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Page
On April 6, 2006 7:27 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Look at > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MathActionDevelopment > > it seems that spammers somehow can extract the mathaction > email-address and write to such a page. I have deleted the spam. In fact I have regularly deleted about 3 or 4 exa

[Axiom-developer] Mathaction and Spammers

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Look at http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MathActionDevelopment it seems that spammers somehow can extract the mathaction email-address and write to such a page. Can there something be done (apart from manually removing it)? Bill, is there a way to include a spamchecker? Ralf __

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: typo in src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet

2006-04-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | > It is good to have unstable branch where experiments are | > conducted. | | Yes, I think that is good. You will probably suggest that for those | experimental branches there might be other people responsible not you. | | GNU ARCH lets you do

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: typo in src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Gaby, I agree. Well, almost. Almost because I do not believe *every* patch should be applied to the branch. You probably have more years of experience than me. ;-) I believe patches that survive public review should be > immediately applied. Fine. It is good to have unstable branch w

[Axiom-developer] Latex Package problem

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hello, I am just compiling patch-47 axiom on standard debian sarge. My compilation stops in the middle of compiling the documentation and just continues after I have pressed enter. I've tracked down the problem to that here (see below). Any hint? You probably will not tell me that my teTeX i

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: typo in src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet

2006-04-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi Gaby, | | I am happy that you raised that problem. | | On 04/05/2006 06:30 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > and expertise. Key factors for that, I believe, are: | >* instant availability of patches applied to mainline | | Well, it should be

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: typo in src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet

2006-04-06 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Gaby, I am happy that you raised that problem. On 04/05/2006 06:30 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: and expertise. Key factors for that, I believe, are: * instant availability of patches applied to mainline Well, it should be very simple that any patch that is sent to Tim is immediately