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
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
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
>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
> 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
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
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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
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
>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
>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
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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
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
> 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
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
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
>> >> 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
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
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