Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
root wrote: BTW ... it's possible I'll have my One Laptop Per Child machine before the end of the year. The shipments have started, and I ordered early enough that I might get it between Christmas and New Years, or at worst, in the first week or two of January. So I am looking for a lightweight

[Axiom-developer] Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas

2007-12-20 Thread root
> Of course not. I'd call them all axiom. That's fine. Since you seem to be the primary person interested in maintaining this bogus ambiguity (so you don't have to change axiom.el???) there doesn't seem to be a way we can work together on a converged bug list, converged test suite, or a converged

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread Bill Page
On 12/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Bill Page wrote: > > On 12/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > >> ... There is no confusion on my machines simply because I don't > >> need either FriCAS or OpenAxiom -- and I haven't installed them -- > >> and I don't intend to. > >> > > > > So are y

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread root
>BTW ... it's possible I'll have my One Laptop Per Child machine before >the end of the year. The shipments have started, and I ordered early >enough that I might get it between Christmas and New Years, or at worst, >in the first week or two of January. So I am looking for a lightweight >CAS. I

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread root
>A year or so ago I got a CD from ACM SIGSAM with a bunch of CAS on it, >including, of course, Axiom. I don't remember what else was on there, >but I don't think there were any I hadn't heard of from either Debian or >Gentoo. If that is the ISSAC CD I probably put that together also. -- Tim _

[Axiom-developer] Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> Status: fix proposed => closed > >> >> > >> >> Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows > >> >> so this isn't a bug but a feature request. > >> > > >> >Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project. If this is indeed the > >> >case, > >> >please

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Bill Page wrote: On 12/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... There is no confusion on my machines simply because I don't need either FriCAS or OpenAxiom -- and I haven't installed them -- and I don't intend to. So are you arguing against Tim's point of view? If there is

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
root wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel called "Quantian" I worked with him on that. Haven't heard from him in a while. Have to msg him. Prior to Quantian I was distributing "Rosetta" CDs which had about 100 CAS-ish systems on them. Along came Knoppix. I started the Doyen effort but Dirk got the Knoppix

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread root
> Dirk Eddelbuettel called "Quantian" I worked with him on that. Haven't heard from him in a while. Have to msg him. Prior to Quantian I was distributing "Rosetta" CDs which had about 100 CAS-ish systems on them. Along came Knoppix. I started the Doyen effort but Dirk got the Knoppix thing up and

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread Bill Page
On 12/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... There is no confusion on my machines simply because I don't > need either FriCAS or OpenAxiom -- and I haven't installed them -- > and I don't intend to. > So are you arguing against Tim's point of view? If there is no confusion

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
root wrote: Maintaining this confusion doesn't help the users. Imagine a new CAS user who decides to download several projects like pari, maxima, Axiom, Fricas, and OpenAxiom. He decides to install them all and play with them. The end result will be 3 directories of code, only one of which can

[Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas

2007-12-20 Thread C Y
Martin Rubey wrote: >> If you'd like to propose a meta-name that is not Axiom > > Please propose such a name. I cannot. For me, the meta name is Axiom, and > there happens to be a sub-project bearing the same name. But that's my > personal and biased view of things. What about Scratchpad? I

Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread root
>> >> Status: fix proposed => closed >> >> >> >> Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows >> >> so this isn't a bug but a feature request. >> > >> >Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project. If this is indeed the case, >> >please do not close bugs, just because they are fixed (in one

[Axiom-developer] Re: #325 Severe bug in normalize$EFSTRUC

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Status: fix proposed > > > I've spent the last 2 hours dragging thru the fricas change list > trying to reverse-engineer #325 Severe bug in normalize$EFSTRUC Why don't you just diff efstruc.spad.pamphlet? It seems that it was a side-effect of fixing #294,

a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Status: fix proposed => closed > >> > >> Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows > >> so this isn't a bug but a feature request. > > > >Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project. If this is indeed the case, > >please do not close bugs, just bec

[Axiom-developer] #325 Severe bug in normalize$EFSTRUC

2007-12-20 Thread root
>> Status: fix proposed I've spent the last 2 hours dragging thru the fricas change list trying to reverse-engineer #325 Severe bug in normalize$EFSTRUC I'm giving up on this task until someone posts a patch. A "fix proposed" status needs to say what the bug was and what the fix is. The fact t

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread root
>> Status: fix proposed => closed >> >> Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows >> so this isn't a bug but a feature request. > >Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project. If this is indeed the case, >please do not close bugs, just because they are fixed (in one sense or the >other)

[Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Tim, Gaby, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (daly) writes: > Status: fix proposed => closed > > Strictly speaking, Axiom does not run on Windows > so this isn't a bug but a feature request. Tim, I guess with Axiom you mean your project. If this is indeed the case, please do not close bugs, just because

[Axiom-developer] Re: IssueTracker

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear all, for today I'll stop working on IssueTracker. But I'd like to encourage all developers of open-axiom and axiom to go through the issues which have status fix proposed and check whether they work in their systems, too. These are just 39 bugs, maybe some are fixed already on all syste

[Axiom-developer] IssueTracker

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear all, I am working my way through the algebra issues on IssueTracker. For the moment, I give those bugs that are fixed in FriCAS the status "fix proposed", with a comment that it is fixed in FriCAS. (Of course, as soon as I encounter a fixed bug in one of the other versions, I will do the sa