Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 19:42, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: You must be reading her message differently from the way I did. Yaakov got the message basically right. I used the gc package as an unfortunate example but this doesn't invalidate the fact that it would be much more feasible to have the extra libs your

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-08 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 On Jan 7 19:42, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: You must be reading her message differently from the way I did. Yaakov got the message basically right. I used the gc package as an unfortunate example

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel R. Grayson wrote: Yaakov said I should submit ITP's for those dependent libraries, and that the question of interest in Macaulay2 is moot until then, but you say I don't have to submit ITP's for them, because they are either already

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
Dear Cygwin, I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no positive votes since then. I would have thought that by now, if there were any interest in having it in cygwin, there would have been a positive vote. I understand that 5 are required. As I said before, Macaulay 2

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:04:39PM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no positive votes since then. I would have thought that by now, if there were any interest in having it in cygwin, there would have been a positive vote. I

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:14:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't see it in Fedora 10 but it looks like it was included in the extras package for older Fedoras. ...But this does not automatically qualify Macaulay2 for inclusion in the Cygwin distribution. cgf

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:14:26 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:04:39PM -0600, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: I submitted an ITP

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel R. Grayson wrote: I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no positive votes since then. I would have thought that by now, if there were any interest in having it in cygwin, there would have been a positive vote.

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2009-01-07 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 ... On 14 November, Corinna explained[1] that you (or someone else) will need to ITP the yet-unpackaged dependencies as well before this can be seriously considered. AFAICS that hasn't happened yet, so I think the question of interest is still

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Daniel R Grayson writes: Dear Cygwin, We'd like to distribute Macaulay 2 as an official cygwin package. The package is used by hundreds of mathematicians as part of their research, and hundreds of published research papers, listed on our web site have cited it. It has

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 13 12:16, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: PS: Macaulay2 depends on various other 3rd party packages, which are not yet set up as cygwin packages, namely: singular-factory, gc, singular-libfac, and ntl. Ouch. I don't suppose someone has come forward to create those packages... Our

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: The gc package at least might be useful for others as well. If by gc you mean the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector library, it's already packaged as libgc. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 14 03:00, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: The gc package at least might be useful for others as well. If by gc you mean the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector library, it's already packaged as libgc. Uh,

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
That's the one, thanks! Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:00:18 -0600 From: Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: The gc package at least might be useful for others

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-14 Thread Reini Urban
2008/11/13 Corinna: Yes, definitely. I'm not familiar with this stuff at all, so I would be glad if some other maintainer (Reini? You're mathomatica maintainer so you might have some affinity...) would take a look. Sorry, I'm terribly busy at work, and only have my laptop around. -- Reini

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:16 -0600 From: Daniel R. Grayson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 ... It is not included in a major Linux distribution. Oops, no, I was wrong. It seems to be included in Fedora 8, 9, 10, thanks to Rex Dieter, see

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 13 08:23, Daniel R. Grayson wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:16 -0600 From: Daniel R. Grayson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1 ... It is not included in a major Linux distribution. Oops, no, I was wrong. It seems

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
PS: Macaulay2 depends on various other 3rd party packages, which are not yet set up as cygwin packages, namely: singular-factory, gc, singular-libfac, and ntl. I don't suppose someone has come forward to create those packages... Our Makefile is set up to automatically download the source code

[ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-11 Thread Daniel R. Grayson
Dear Cygwin, We'd like to distribute Macaulay 2 as an official cygwin package. The package is used by hundreds of mathematicians as part of their research, and hundreds of published research papers, listed on our web site have cited it. It has been developed over the years through generous