Re: yacas and Mathematics task

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso wrote: It is, however, mathematical software, marginally useful, and it doesn't have a large footprint, so I wouldn't mind having it as a mathematics task (this is tasksel we're talking about, right?). I think we talk about integration into the task

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chris Walker wrote: The biology status doesn't take into account the bugs in the two metapackages it depends on (though how you'd do this, I'm not quite sure). I think I tried to explain in the past but in case I forgot to do so here is what I plan to do: New field: M

Re: yacas and Mathematics task

2008-11-12 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
2008/11/12 Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yacas[1] looks to me an obvious candidate for the mathematics > task. However I've not actually used it, nor am I a mathematician, so > objections/support for adding it would be appreciated. Yacas seems like a toy to me. It has a very small subset of

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ahh, yes. This is definitely planed. I also wanted to link from > the tasks pages to the bugs pages somehow indicating the bug status > as well. But I wanted to gather some comments on my estimation of > the status first. I really like the idea -

Re: ITP: Elmer -- Finite element software for multiphysics problems

2008-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:32 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:18 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't have anything to say about Elmer, but ... > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 02:01:52PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Elmer uses METIS (or its free coun

yacas and Mathematics task

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Walker
Yacas[1] looks to me an obvious candidate for the mathematics task. However I've not actually used it, nor am I a mathematician, so objections/support for adding it would be appreciated. Chris [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/yacas Computer Algebra System Yacas is a small and highl

Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 11 Nov 2008 12:40:02 +, > Chris Walker wrote: > > I've just tried to build axiom on sparc on a lenny system- and get > > exactly the same build error. It builds fine on an i386 system. > > Unfortunately I suspect that to track this down needs so