Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-math] [Fwd: Re: EXPR POLY INT]

[Martin Rubey]

root writes:
 > Bill, Martin, Manuel,
 > 
 > Could one/both/all of you summarize this discussion in some way?  I'd
 > like to apply the suggested code fragments/fixes to Axiom but I'm
 > somewhat confused.

I think the patches on the axiom patch-page

http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=axiom 

are generally accepted. I would not integrate code which has not made it to
this page yet.

It would be good to correct the code in dvdsum, but I don't really know how to
do this. I sent a *preliminary* patch right now... Manuel, could you have a
look at it?
http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=3148


A bigger issue is bug #9217 (re-evaluating the sum operator). I find this
rather important, however, I don't know how to fix it. For bug #9313 (0^0) we
need consensus first.

 > Martin sent me some code. I integrated the first piece but you've
 > asked me to wait until you added test cases. Then you sent me
 > additional code. What are your expectations of my actions?

I thought that I sent this code only to axiom-math. So my intention is that
this code should be puplicly available, but I would not put it into

src/algebra/

with the exception of the interpolation code maybe -- *but not yet* !  I'd
suggest that we have a seperate directory for contributed stuff. The maxima
developers thought quite some time about this, they ended up with a quite
detailed directory structure, goto

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/maxima/maxima/

and look at src and contrib to get an impression.

In any case, the code in my guessing package will be available at

http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~slc/divers/software.html 

as soon as I have a definite name for it. (rate, guess, devine are taken, I'd
love to have a greek or latin version...)

 > Bill has suggested possible fixes and further improvements but Manuel
 > has suggested different fixes.
 > 
 > I've been reading the thread in order to glean the required changes to
 > Axiom but I've ended up confused as to what I'm expected to do. I'm
 > quite pleased with the suggestions but lost in the expectations.
 > 
 > Please try to summarize this so I don't lose the changes.
 > 
 > Tim