[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Windows: where's the documentation?

2006-10-29 Thread root
yes, i have hyperdoc running on windows. but it requires the Xming program and i haven't had time to document and package it. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Windows: where's the documentation?

2006-10-29 Thread Martin Rubey
I vaguely remember that somebody managed to have HyperDoc on MS-windows, given that an X-server is installed? Martin ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] asdf

2006-10-29 Thread C Y
--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Indeed, an ASDF based version of Axiom will completely enclose > > the whole issue into a proper lisp build framework and the > > whole build process can disappear. > > I simply don't believe this statement at all. Other issues aside Bill, asdf is in

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: $erase (Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [209] trunk3)

2006-10-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Vanuxem Grégory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | The primary purpose of my mail (forget my joke and my use of $erase) was | to inform you and Gaby that it was buggy. I was glad to hear the code had problems; otherwise, I would be considering its inclusion in build-improvements. -- Gaby __

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I would welcome an access to that problematic platform to investigate | > the issue. | | Unfortunately my home machines have dynamic IPs so I can't give access. | Download an FC5 iso, install it, and try to do a build. I'll try that. I've resurected an old

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update torecentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread root
Bill, I believe you're not ready to hear my answer. Lets try experience... Implement your suggestion in your own branch and we can experiment with it. If the experiment hints that it is a success then we'll merge it into silver. Clearly this will raise a lot of issues, such as how you plan t

[Axiom-developer] Re: $erase (Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [209] trunk3)

2006-10-29 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Le samedi 28 octobre 2006 à 13:06 -0400, root a écrit : [...] > You're using code which is not Gold. Yes I know, and if I mention that this is for users of Silver and for the possible inclusion of this patch into Gold. > > The silver code, from any source, has NOT been tested. > I resisted makin

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread root
> I would welcome an access to that problematic platform to investigate > the issue. Unfortunately my home machines have dynamic IPs so I can't give access. Download an FC5 iso, install it, and try to do a build. There was a library issue if I recall correctly. Possilbly related to the GCC versio

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | At the present time we need to maintain two different snapshots of GCL, | one for general linux (gcl-2.6.8pre2) and one for fedora 5 (gcl-2.6.8pre). | These are incompatible. Worse yet, these two versions are not explicitly | tagged in the GCL CVS so we ca

RE: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update torecentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread Bill Page
On October 29, 2006 4:19 PM Tim Daly wrote: > >Bill Page wrote: > > Let me take this opportunity to raise again the question of > > whether it still makes sense to store the gcl source as a > > tarball in the axiom source tree. If we are going to keep a > > copy of gcl around just in case we hav

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | At the present time we need to maintain two different snapshots of GCL, | one for general linux (gcl-2.6.8pre2) and one for fedora 5 (gcl-2.6.8pre). | These are incompatible. Worse yet, these two versions are not explicitly | tagged in the GCL CVS so we ca

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread root
> Let me take this opportunity to raise again the question of > whether it still makes sense to store the gcl source as a > tarball in the axiom source tree. If we are going to keep a > copy of gcl around just in case we have to build it in order > to install axiom, then why don't we just make it a

RE: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-29 Thread Bill Page
On October 27, 2006 6:58 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of > GCL-2.6.8pre (as of yesterday night, central time). It also > has us stop applying toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply > cleanly because the portion of code it touches had been

RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-29 Thread C Y
--- C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is how I see the situation: > > > > | || | > > | |darcs and | > > |next big = hg mirrors | > > |

RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-29 Thread C Y
--- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is how I see the situation: > > | || | > | |darcs and | > |next big = hg mirrors | > |experiment | | > gold | /