[I am not CCing the FriCAS google group since I am not subscribed] On Jan 17, 10:44 pm, "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin,
Hi, > 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. Sage installs readline per default in $SAGE_LOCAL 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. Note that we renamed the clip binary into clisp.bin in order to make %clisp work when the sage directory has been moved. We fixed maxima, but obviously nobody fixes the FriCAS optional spkg. > 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. It doesn't. We can update optional spkgs anytime you provide a new one. > > Many thanks, > > > Martin Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
