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Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver |
Date: |
27 Oct 2006 22:49:24 +0200 |
root <address@hidden> writes:
| > For me personally, autoconf support is more important than
| > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really
| > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build
| > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing
| > the number of type of supported platforms is very important
| > for increasing the number of Axiom users.
| >
| > So I am especially interested in what I labelled Gold (52)
| > above, but I can live with the experimental branch until
| > then.
|
| I realize that autoconf is your golden standard and you know I believe
| that it won't have a measureable effect on the number of developers.
I don't know.
What I know for sure is that I have five students who all have hard
time with Axiom silver and I had to give them
axiom.build-improvements. One group is working on formal power series,
and the other is working on algorithmic differentiation.
| I do think the build-improvements branch has a positive effect by
| making people believe they can change the system. Unfortunately
| changing Axiom is easy but showing that you didn't break anything is
| hard. A lot of my changes are not posted because there are many
| things to check. Though I have a lot of experience with Axiom I
| cannot answer Gaby's questions without study and experiment. I don't
| think autoconf is going to change that.
It most certainly is not going to answer those questions, but I believe it
would lower the entry barrier to building Axiom (and possibly
modifying it). And that is a Good Thing.
-- Gaby
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, (continued)
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, root, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Page, Bill, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Martin Rubey, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, root, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, root, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver,
Gabriel Dos Reis <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Formal Power Series, Martin Rubey, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Formal Power Series, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Waldek Hebisch, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, root, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver, root, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Axiom-developer] closing bug reports, Martin Rubey, 2006/10/27
- [Axiom-developer] Dependent types in Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/10/27
- [Axiom-developer] freeing Aldor (was: closing bug reports), Page, Bill, 2006/10/27