Waldek,

As I'm sure you've come to appreciate it takes a lot of time to understand,
make, test, and publish solutions to what may seem to others as "simple
problems". 

There was a huge discussion about a release schedule for Axiom. Some
wanted a weekly release. We eventually agreed on a release every 2 months.
Fricas seems to have much longer intervals with no defined schedule.

People seem to forget that you have, like I had, "a real job" that likely
does not involve Fricas or their particular problem. Axiom work was 
always a "nights and weekend" effort.

It is easy to find a problem. It is much harder to find a solution.
Ask people to propose a patch rather than inventing it yourself.
Otherwise the process doesn't scale.

Tim


On Friday, May 5, 2023 at 4:40:53 PM UTC-4 Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 09:31:00PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > Then maybe we do
> > that with HashTable afterwards. I would rather like this hunchentoot 
> thing
> > inside FRICASsys as I described here
> > 
> > https://hemmecke.github.io/fricas/install.html#jfricas-optional
> > 
> > patches are in the wip/fricas-jfricas branch of my github repo.
>
> I think that it is worth mentioning that one of my significant
> troubles working with FriCAS (and in general) is managing work
> queue. Simply "getting up to speed" takes time and if something
> is suspended I need time just to restart it. IME most efficient
> strategy is to do something in one shot. But things may get
> blocked and work lands on work queue. Also, I usually can
> allocate to FriCAS only relatively short uninterruped time
> intervals. So I instead of working on "highest priority"
> item I frequently do smaller things which can be done in
> available time. Trying to "work on highest priority item",
> in many cases would mean not making any progress at all.
>
> Coming back to hunchentoot/jfricas: I consider this a high
> priority item. But as I wrote in another mail (and in mails
> long ago) for release there are issues to resolve. One
> of issues (dependency on SSL) is resolved. But there are
> other, and progress here requires cooperation. Which brings
> communication delays. So this is definitely not thing that
> cound be "fast tracked".
>
> -- 
> Waldek Hebisch
>

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