RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
Arch. Thanks - that would definitely bypass the problem when next I get the time to work on Axiom. Would it be possible for you to merge all the Windows work back into CVS? Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongn

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
g Debian with Axiom (browser and graphics) under VMPlayer hosted on Windows and it worked beautifully. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
as never able to get ssh commits working with Arch. It will take a very good reason for me ever to use Arch again. Cheers Mike Thomas ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
d thence an industrial strength GUI binding like wxCL based on the highly portable wxWidgets library. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
rge the two branches. For example, Bill Page > has a windows branch. Am I right in believing that changes in the main "golden sources are _not_ being fed into those subprojects? That is the bitrot to which I refer. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ A

[Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
falling into a well. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-28 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi all. > Why don't you use tla? See the section "Criticisms" on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Arch and then the amount of work going on at: http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/gnu-arch/ Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom

[Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 GUI

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Thomas
re2). Packages also seem to be causing some trouble for the compiler. LTK does not compile on the stable branch of GCL. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-22 Thread Mike Thomas
tions is: Does any reader of this mailing list other than myself come from: Brisbane? South-east Queensland? Australia? Cheers Mike Thomas ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/ma

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-21 Thread Mike Thomas
| frankly i think it'd be a lot of fun to rent a beach house | somewhere and spend 3 days code | hacking/designing/lang-wars-ing on the front porch. morning | presentations, afternoon debates, evening code hacking. the | scratchpad group used to do this in the hamptons, i believe. | nobody sai

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Thomas
to | be overly opinionated, With respect to "overly", not that I've noticed. | but really deep down my intention is | to be open-minded. :) That is also clear. Cheers Mike Thomas ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nong

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Thomas
n BOOT and the Axiom language I found it much more readable. One wonders, however, just how complicated a build system actually has to be particularly as Lisp is used elsewhere in Axiom. Cheers Mike Thomas ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-devel

[Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] [Axiom-mail] \begin{axiom} latex on windows

2005-08-11 Thread Mike Thomas
MikTeX: http://www.miktex.org/ I believe that Bill Page also uses that package. Cheers Mike Thomas -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Possible GCL 2.6.7 for axiom

2005-05-29 Thread Mike Thomas
t;get-current-directory" - a relatively simple task for the platforms upon which GCL currently runs. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-29 Thread Mike Thomas
ecide and prepare the official patch modding the above or otherwise. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-29 Thread Mike Thomas
(truename "."))) 1109c1109 < (list (list '|dir| (namestring (probe-file "./")) )) --- > (list (list '|dir| (namestring (truename "./")) )) Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-26 Thread Mike Thomas
is correct on Windows? (I believe that "." and ".." are actual entities on Unix, but not Windows. Convenience argues for following LW rather than Corman.) 2. What is the system independent way to get the name of the current directory in Common Lisp? Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-26 Thread Mike Thomas
Bill. A quick note to say that I have reproduced that directory change bug but have yet to find time to track it down; hopefully next week. Cheers mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

RE: [Axiom-developer] opinion

2005-05-26 Thread Mike Thomas
ost every programning colleague I have ever worked with. | Eeep. Now that I thought that out, I'll take this moment to say - | THANK YOU, Windows developers! And thank you Tim Daly (and Bill | Schelter) for making all this possible in the first plac

RE: [Axiom-developer] Possible gcl bug with axiom--windows--1

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Thomas
ion of gcc are you using? Likewise what is your CPU and memory? Cheers Mike Thomas. >(compile-file "c:/junk/mflop.lisp") Compiling c:/junk/mflop.lisp. Warning: The OPTIMIZE quality DEBUG is unknown. Warning: The OPTIMIZE quality DEBUG is unknown. End of Pass 1. End of Pass 2. OPTIMI

RE: [Axiom-developer] ntxlib.zip

2005-05-22 Thread Mike Thomas
vices/windows/ Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-19 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Camm. | My last commit to 2.6.7pre was on 5/7. If it broke after that point, | perhaps it was one of these?: | |[ 23: Mike Thomas ] [Gcl-commits] gcl/gcl-tk makefile |< 23: Mike Thomas > |[ 25: Mike Thomas ] [Gcl-commits] gcl configure.in | con

RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-19 Thread Mike Thomas
m. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Thomas
ry has not changed since that patch I sent you in March? Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-05 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Camm/Bill. Positive results on some basic tests per Cam's directory fix yesterday. | > >(probe-file "/msys/1.0") | > | > #p"c:/msys/1.0" | > | > >(probe-file "/msys/1.0/") | > | > #p"c:/msys/1.0/" | > | > >(probe-file "c:/msys/1.0/") | > | > #p"c:/msys/1.0/" | > | > >(probe-file "c:/msys/1.0")

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Thomas
he same as on BSD systems however I just tried to eliminate those problems and still have the same trouble. I'm using Internet Explorer. I'll keep looking perhaps tomorrow. Hopefully this is due to a stupid mistake on my part. Cheers Mike Thomas.

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Thomas
4.2, using Camm's email version (and other versions at that). CHeers Mike Thomas ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Thomas
ll look further later but I'm suspicious that there may be a lot of work ahead here for me. Cheers Mike Thomas | As for bombing when the file is not there, this would appear to be an | error in probe-file on Windows. The 'server' example is supposed to | return a blank page and co

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Thomas
NIL | | I guess I should revert to applying your patches to gcl 2.6.6 | and see if I can at least get that to work on Windows... Interestingly, today I can't get that to work properly either insofar as getting the directory listsing you obtain. Cheers Mike Thomas _

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Thomas
on Windows in a similarly short time frame. Other compiler projects I am aware of farm library work (especially large open ended GUI library projects such as GTK, OpenGL, WXWidgets bindings) out to helpers. The GCL project is short staffed as it is, with you (Camm) the only seriously

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] Simple web server code for GCLfor Windows

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
ould like this to work. This is definitely out of my realm of expertise so I'll trust you to work that out. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
rtainly not) to write a cross platform backend to McClim I personally would be telling them to use WxWidgets, which has been connected up very nicely in both the Scheme and Haskell worlds and is much lighter weight than GTK while retaining good cros-platform performance and app

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
27;m sorry. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
and GIMP! Perhaps over the weekend. Hopefully you can see roughly where it's at from the comments above. Although Glade definitely sounds like a very big plus, it also seems there is a lot more work involved with GTK than just getting GCL/Tk up on Windows both for developers and en

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Possible GCL 2.6.7 for axiom

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
redirected via CreateProcess () per the Unix fork()/exec() idiom. | At some point, perhaps we can boil the ifdefs down to | a minimal set of primitives. There certainly is some room for that yet to be done quite trivially. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] Simple web server code for GCLfor Windows

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
are handled in the | background, e.g. SIGIO, but don't know the portable nor most desirable | way of doing this. Signals are a mistake for portability to Windows. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
owever that GTK on Windows is not as stable as it is on Unix. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Possible GCL 2.6.7 for axiom

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Thomas
that new version of the file is used. Reversing that change then leads to a further problem which I have yet to investigate. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom graphics and porting

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Thomas
ecent patch I just posted on run-process work for |windows? No; not because of the patch which applies and compiles, but because of pre-existing problems which I will try to address later this week. Cheers Mike Thomas. ___ Axiom-developer mailing

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Possible GCL 2.6.7 for axiom

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Thomas
ected-symbol-warn called with (NIL) (1) -> solve([3*x**3+y+1,y**2-4],[x,y]) >> System error: Arg or result mismatch in call to |devaluateList| protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL) === Cheers Mike Thomas.

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom graphics and porting

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Thomas
that, Camm has always been very enthusiastic about GCL/Tk and it seems to me that it is a good way to go for that reason alone. Another (negative) argument in its favour is that JAPI seems to be moribund whereas TCL/Tk is, of course, very active. Cheers Mike Thomas. = ja