Hi Bill:
Does it make sense to build an axiom4sage package which uses the
pre-installed clisp (since maxima comes with clisp) to make the
axiom graphics engine? If so, do you know how long such a package
would take to compile, on average?
- David

On 11/10/07, Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Some time ago I wrote that some graphic examples do not work when
> using clisp based FriCAS.  I belive that the problem is fixed now
> (in revision 123).  The problem was mostly because by default
> clisp is not Ansi compilant, in particular some operations which
> according to Ansi give double floats in fact produced integer
> result.  Fortunately, clisp has a flag which switches off most
> of noncompliant behaviour -- that fixed most of the problems.
> I also had to explicitly coerce Pi to double float (Ansi says
> that PI is of type long float, and in clisp long float is
> different than double float).
>
> So, now graphic should work in clisp based FriCAS as well as
> in gcl or sbcl based FriCAS.
>
> --
>                               Waldek Hebisch
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >
>

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