[Axiom-developer] QED.

2007-12-21 Thread root
> Tim, at this point, you have emptied any credibility point that may be > left. Not to worry, old chap, there is balance in the universe as your credibility with me has risen quite likely as much as mine has fallen with you. You provided exactly the piece of information I was seeking, which pro

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | --- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > | What about Scratchpad? If I've got the history right all of these | > | systems might be considered descendants of Scratchpad, and I don't | > | think there is any longer a product called Scratchpad to be |

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | I know of no other open source project (or closed source for that matter) | that suggests throwing away the trunk for a branch. It appears from his | email that Gaby was also involved in the GCC/EGCS fork so this is not | the first time he's forked a proje

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Unless, of course, the issue is fixed in all three versions of axiom: Gaby, | do HyperDOc and Graphics run on MS Windows for open-axiom? Martin -- I do expect to work on the HyperDoc and Graphics issues for windows. Many thanks for monitoring this.

[Axiom-developer] Re: fact finding.

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It appears that you believe that your average user should be able to do: open-axiom/trunk/INSTALL: Requirements OpenAxiom uses GCL (the GNU Common Lisp) for its runtime support. So, if you already have a running GCL (2.6.7 or 2.6.8),

[Axiom-developer] Re: fact finding.

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Page
On 12/21/07, Tim Daly wrote: > It appears that you believe that your average user should be > able to do: > >svn co open-axiom/trunk oaxiom >cd oaxiom >./configure >make >make install > > So, in order to see what the DEFAULT behavior actually is, > I did that. Unfortunately it a

[Axiom-developer] fact finding.

2007-12-21 Thread daly
It appears that you believe that your average user should be able to do: svn co open-axiom/trunk oaxiom cd oaxiom ./configure make make install So, in order to see what the DEFAULT behavior actually is, I did that. Unfortunately it appears that OpenAxiom will not build on axiom-dev

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Tim Daly wrote: | > When doing "install" I believe that all three systems use "axiom" as | > the name of the execution script. Thus, OpenAxiom and Fricas (despite | > ALSO creating the fricas script) are destroying the average user's | > ability to install all three systems. If I did not know yo

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

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Page
On 12/21/07, root wrote: > > There are no directory name clashes. I run all three side-by-side at > > When doing "install" I believe that all three systems use "axiom" as > the name of the execution script. Thus, OpenAxiom and Fricas (despite > ALSO creating the fricas script) are destroying the av

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

2007-12-21 Thread root
>I believe that is what nearly everyone wants. However I am not sure if >this is what Tim wants since he specifically invited both Waldek and >Gaby to create forks when they could not come to some agreement about >basic development methodology and the future of the project. And the >current argumen

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

2007-12-21 Thread C Y
--- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | What about Scratchpad? If I've got the history right all of these > | systems might be considered descendants of Scratchpad, and I don't > | think there is any longer a product called Scratchpad to be > | confused with them? Or perhaps Scratchp

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

2007-12-21 Thread root
> There are no directory name clashes. I run all three side-by-side at When doing "install" I believe that all three systems use "axiom" as the name of the execution script. Thus, OpenAxiom and Fricas (despite ALSO creating the fricas script) are destroying the average user's ability to install al

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Bill Page wrote: | Installation was simple. The only thing you need to be concerned | about is the proper setting of the AXIOM variable. Users need to set the AXIOm environement variable in order to run OpenAxiom. By design. -- Gaby ___

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

2007-12-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, C Y wrote: | | 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