Re: [Axiom-developer] mercurial source code control system

2006-09-15 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
We are already using 4 different source code control systems in the Axiom project (CVS, ARCH, SVN, DARCS) and no one is entirely happy with any one of them, so what's the harm in considering yet another? :-) Gaby uses SVK to access our SVN archive. ;-) Seriously, who is using CVS? Should we con

[Axiom-developer] mercurial source code control system

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki We are already using 4 different source code control systems in the Axiom project (CVS, ARCH, SVN, DARCS) and no one is entirely happy with any one of them, so what's the harm in considering yet another? :-) Mercurial (Hg) has been getting some very good revi

[Axiom-developer] Re: Interest in Scientific Linux

2006-09-15 Thread root
> Hello, > As we get started with Scientific Linux we are just checking as people > sign up for the development mailing list what is bringing them to > Scientific Linux. > Would you mind sharing what your interest is in Scientific Linux? I'm the lead developer on Axiom. Axiom was originally dev

[Axiom-developer] RE: timeout?

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
Martin, On September 15, 2006 1:00 PM you wrote: > > Bill Page writes: > > > Yes, there is a time-limit of 1 minute for Axiom on MathAction > > to prevent any problems where a run-away process hangs the whole > > system. > > > > Can you think of why it might take more than a minute to compile >

Re: [Axiom-developer] [Fwd: Your message to Axiom-commit awaitsmoderator approval]

2006-09-15 Thread Jay Belanger
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > I think you are right. SourceForge seems to be having ongoing > network problems. I still can not access the compile farm. Good; sorta. At least it's not just me, I've been trying to access it all week. I seem to recall recently reading that there a

[Axiom-developer] Re: timeout?

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin, > > Yes, there is a time-limit of 1 minute for Axiom on MathAction > to prevent any problems where a run-away process hangs the whole > system. > > Can you think of why it might take more than a minute to compile > that page? If absolutely necess

[Fwd: Re: [Axiom-developer] A Canonical Axiom GUI]

2006-09-15 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Kai, Thanks for your quick reply. I can not send a mail to you, gmx.de does not accept mails from my ISP, so I send it here. In fact I wanted to know why you think that _Axiom is somewhat 'unfriendly' to program_, but in general and not only about interfacing with textual chatters. I misundersto

[Axiom-developer] RE: timeout?

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
Martin, Yes, there is a time-limit of 1 minute for Axiom on MathAction to prevent any problems where a run-away process hangs the whole system. Can you think of why it might take more than a minute to compile that page? If absolutely necessary I can temporarily relax this restriction. Regards, B

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom.silver

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
Camm, On September 15, 2006 11:31 AM you wrote: > > Can we finalize this stat bit please? I'm trying to get 2.6.8 > out ... > Great! > In addition to knowing whether enough information is provided, > I need to know if it works on windows, macosx, and any other > proprietary system of interest.

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom.silver

2006-09-15 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Can we finalize this stat bit please? I'm trying to get 2.6.8 out In addition to knowing whether enough information is provided, I need to know if it works on windows, macosx, and any other proprietary system of interest. Take care, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > G

[Axiom-developer] Re: colinux

2006-09-15 Thread Alfredo Portes
Probably Tim and Bill extend on the idea.  That should be: Probably Tim and Bill can explain the Doyen idea better. :-)  Alfredo ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] Re: colinux

2006-09-15 Thread Alfredo Portes
William,> Just out of curiosity, what were the issues with colinux that forced > you into using live Linux CD's, vmware, etc.?I never used colinux.  The Doyen CD is based on Tim Daly's idea of a collaborative science platform: http://daly.axiom-developer.org/doyen/ . The goal of the project is to

RE: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
On September 15, 2006 10:51 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > Kai Kaminski writes: > ... > | > http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014315.html > | Ok, I guess it is about the fact that ANSI CL doesn't require > | IEEE-754 floating point? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get > | what you'r

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Kai Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | >http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014315.html | Ok, I guess it is about the fact that ANSI CL doesn't require | IEEE-754 floating point? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get what you're | trying to say (seriously). the claimed por

[Axiom-developer] Re: putting pamphlets on MathAction

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On September 15, 2006 4:27 AM Martin Rubey wrote: > > > > unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work yet. How can I make MathAction > > compile a pamphlet? > > ??? What do you mean by "compile"? > > Perhaps you expected that the SPAD code embedded in the pa

[Axiom-developer] RE: Building Axiom on axiom-developer.org

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
Kai, On September 15, 2006 4:56 AM you wrote: > > the build of Gold (--patch-50) fails for me. The first problem is that > the X11 headers aren't found, which can be overcome by adding > -I/usr/X11R6/include to CCF in the Makefile.linux chunk in the > toplevel Makefile.pamphlet. > > Now it fails

[Axiom-developer] RE: putting pamphlets on MathAction

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Page
On September 15, 2006 4:27 AM Martin Rubey wrote: > > unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work yet. How can I make > MathAction compile a pamphlet? ??? What do you mean by "compile"? Perhaps you expected that the SPAD code embedded in the pamphlet file would be "compiled" the same way that \be

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread root
hmmm, something bogus going on with the databases... clearly this needs to be fixed. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Tim, Alfredo, I just succeeded building as outlined below. Concerning the HyperDoc issue, all constructors except those in the last layer are known now abbreviated and spelled out. The ones in the last layer are known only spelled out. Unfortunately, HyperDoc crashes on GUESSINT and GUESSP wi

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Kai Kaminski
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > | > | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to > port. > | > | > > | > | > no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Tim, Dear Alfredo! root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > got it. working on it. --t great. A hint: I meanwhile found a (terrible) workaround. But this way I probably won't get Alfredo to build Axiom :-( Alfredo: it turned out that I can burn my CD's on Sunday afternoon European time. So there

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Kai Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | > | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to port. | > | > | > | > no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the | > | > Axiom source code. I don't thi

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread root
got it. working on it. --t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pls tar up your copy of the spad code and i'll wrestle with it. > i don't know the answer off the top of my head so it will take > some work. --t Would be really great! alfredo.tgz Description: GNU Zip compressed data mantepse depends on fffg and rec the con

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread root
pls tar up your copy of the spad code and i'll wrestle with it. i don't know the answer off the top of my head so it will take some work. --t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-deve

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
Yet another question: I just noticed that the constructor RINTERP is not found by HyperDoc, only the operation it exports. After using one of the operations, RationalInterpolation is found, but RINTERP still isn't. Tim, you added RINTERP some months ago into the user layer. I suspect that one s

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Kai Kaminski
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to port. > | > > | > no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the > | > Axiom source code. I don't think we have a perfect language match > | > here in terms

Re: [Axiom-developer] Help with adding algebra URGENT!

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Tim, * do I have to modify the daase files if I add two algebra files, one depending on the other? Martin > > I'm having problems adding algebra. > > I have a package FiniteAbelianMonoidRingFunctions2, short FAMR2, and another > one, FractionFre

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Kai Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | On September 14, 2006 9:42 PM you wrote: | > | > > | > | > > > > > As far as I can see PLF is defined in Makefile.pamphlet | > | > > but never | > | > > > > >

[Axiom-developer] Re: putting pamphlets on MathAction

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Bill, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work yet. How can I make MathAction compile a pamphlet? It seems that RECOP and the constructors in fffg.spad were compiled, but those from mantepse weren't. Furthermore, I had to fix a typo in RECOP, but I didn't manage to recompile it. Could you plea

Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

2006-09-15 Thread Kai Kaminski
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On September 14, 2006 9:42 PM you wrote: > | > > > | > > > > > As far as I can see PLF is defined in Makefile.pamphlet > | > > but never > | > > > > > used anywhere in the source. > | > > > > > > | > > > > > I