This sentence is not a Lie. (was Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source)

2005-12-15 Thread Jay Belanger
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> axiom is free software. design it, hack it, polish it, test it, >> document it, and send patches (or arch changesets). you're >> allowed to do anything you want and have no reason to depend >> on me for anything (except t

RE: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-15 Thread C Y
Heh - maddeningly enough, it seems to be the rule that the most interesting languages have the least support. Lisp had the misfortune to be just sufficiently unpopular in the early to mid ninties that it never got the plethera of graphics libraries that other languages got, and that had proved dif

RE: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:43 PM Bob McElrath wrote: > ... > Remember that effort is an exponentially falling distribution. > Just a guess, but each line below will at least halve the number > of people that make it to that step. Open source occurs on the > tail. I disagree. Or at least,

RE: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:42 PM C Y wrote: > > WOW. I did not know things had progressed that far. >Exciting times. > > --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/messagebox-goodness.png > > > > sbcl on windows popping up a native windows messagebox > > Li

Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread C Y
WOW. I did not know things had progressed that far. Exciting times. Cheers, CY --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/messagebox-goodness.png > > sbcl on windows popping up a native windows messagebox > > t > __ Do

Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread root
http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/messagebox-goodness.png sbcl on windows popping up a native windows messagebox t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > axiom is free software. design it, hack it, polish it, test it, > document it, and send patches (or arch changesets). you're > allowed to do anything you want and have no reason to depend > on me for anything (except the final merge step into axiom-- > main

Re: [Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread Bob McElrath
root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when people have suggested new platforms like windows or sbcl, > new guis, new algebra, or whatever a new branch is created. i > expect that (a) people will commit to those branches and (b) > people will develop their idea to the level that it "just works" > and (c)

[Axiom-developer] this is open source

2005-12-14 Thread root
there are 22 developers listed with WRITE access to every project on arch.axiom-developer.org. write access is available for the asking. while i don't expect people to mangle the axiom--main branch virtually every one can create a branch, make changes, test them, and post patches. there are 13 pu