Martin, You are right. The version of axiom4sage (fricas4sage) is a bit old and based on only the first experimental release of the Lisp caching scheme implemented by Waldek. It is time to update it. But do you think maybe we should wait until Waldek declares the next official release of FriCAS or base it on the last official release? I think that one of these two options would be better than just building a new fricas4sage from the current version in trunk (since that remains a moving target). What do you think?
In principle doing a new fricas4sage release is fairly easy. First you need to generate a cached Lisp distribution and then just replace the contents of the source directory in the fricas4sage.spkg (tgz format) file. There are a few things that should also be done in the 'axiom.py' interface code: 1) the hack to disable readline in clisp is required in order to run FriCAS built with clisp to run properly on some systems. 2) I really really would like to include a new method to allow sage to compile spad programs. 3) It would be great to have standard mechanism to build and install optional Axiom/FriCAS packages, e.g. JETbundles and PAFF. Also, it would be great to allow the 'axiom.console()' command to start the *full* version of FriCAS including HyperDoc and Graphics. Unfortunately this requires building FriCAS using a newer version of clisp than what is currently distributed with Sage. Finally, I would like to hear from anyone else actually wanting to use Axiom/FriCAS in sage. Regards, Bill Page. On 17 Jan 2008 20:28:49 +0100, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Bill, > > I try to push it a little: do you think you could make a new fricas package > for > sage. It seems to me that the last one is already a bit dated, isn't it? It > seems to be from last July. > > I'm afraid, we missed the current sage release, although I doubt that it > matters. > > Many thanks, > > Martin > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
