On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Martin Albrecht
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>
> Hi there,
>
> while conversing with Hans Schönemann about GCC 4.3 support for Singular the
> topic of shipping CVS code of Singular came up. The CVS version of Singular
> has experimental (and thus possibly broken) support for Gröbner bases over
> rings (Z, Z/n).
>
> Basically, we have the okay from Hans to ship this version iff we make it
> perfectly clear that this stuff is experimental.
>
> Also, the implementation is still considered too slow by the Singular team.
>
> However, as there was pretty strong demand for this on this list several
> times
> I could try to provide an experimental singular-cvs SPKG + wrapper for those
> interested to play around. The gathered feedback/excitement could help to
> improve the implementation or maybe somebody wants to even jump in and help
> out.
>
> If we want this, then I propose the following:
>
> * Get the okay from Oliver Wienand the main author of the code. I think
> Oliver is reading this list.
> * I try to provide an SPKG based on the most current Singular checkout + a
> wrapper (maybe only via pexpect for now)
> * Whenever someone tries to use the code we print a big fat warning that
> this
> is alpha code.
>
> Thoughts?
Make sure the warning is via the verbose command with level=0.
Alternatively, we could have a command
I.groebner_experimental_alpha_version()
or
I.groebner(algorithm="singular:experimental...")
and if either is explicitly selected then there is no other warning.
-- William
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