RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: SPAD and Aldor again

[Bill Page]

On November 17, 2006 1:03 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> 
> On 11/17/2006 06:17 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> ... 
> > I would love to see some documentation of this work. My
> > impression is that it was largely done in a "closed" non-
> > open source manner. Was there a reason for that? Is there a
> > license issue?
> 
> Are we "closed"? I think I miss something.

I said it is "my impression". By that I mean that the project
appears or looks like it is closed to me. Of course I know
about it from cross-postings to other lists like the aldor
list and the Axiom developer list, but I have never seen any
annoucement about it or any advertisement about it or any
design ideas or other information on the wiki. So to me, yes
it "seems" closed.

> It is true that we have not yet released a tarball but the
> repository is readable by anyone.
> 
> svn://svn.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/hemmecke/combinat
> 
> If you cannot read it, tell me and I'll fix it.
> 

Yes I expect that I can, however I am not strongly motivated
to try because I do not know very much about it.

> Of course, it's a license issue... Is GPL open enough?
>

;) No, I meant something like the mupad problems...
 
> > Are you planning to put anything on the Axiom Wiki about
> > the Axiom/Aldor-combinat work?
> 
> Of course. I actually wanted to show the generated html, but
> did not  consider that so important, since it is generatable
> from the sources by a simple "make html". Once, we have setup
> a website, we'll let the world know.

Most open source projects "let the world know" first so that
they can attract interest in the work and maybe more volunteers.

Why not put the output of "make hmtl" on the web now? I think
it is very important.

Regards,
Bill Page.