Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Guessing package, was: Re: your program / paper

[Ralf Stephan]

> wh-sandbox has implemented a radically different algebra build
> process that avoids many of the problems associated with the
> old "bootstrap" method. It has also implemented some significant
> improvements to the way the Axiom database is built. Therefore
> it is not clear to me if it would be possible to incorporate
> Martin's package in the old Silver release without first
> incorporating most (if not all) of the changes in wh-sandbox.
> Silver is essentially just the old patch-50 from the tla
> archives. You will recall the problems that we had last summer
> trying to get Martin's code built on that system.

Just a data point: recently, I installed axiom-silver p50 from svn,
and, apart from some make problems (which I reported on one of the
lists), I could build it and install/run the Guess packages
successfully.


ralf