I just received the following from Chris Brown. I was so happy I did a little jig :).
Of course, if anyone wants to try cwitty's wonderful interface, see trac ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/772 . That ticket will probably be updated soon with this new release. Jason, Took a bit longer than expected, but I have posted Saclib2.2.0 and Qepcad B 1.50. Both include a file LICENSE that gives their license explicitly, and it is the same license as OpenBSD, which FSF recognizes as "open source". Most of my time was spent on bug-fixes in saclib, and in trying to make the system dependent parts of saclib easier to install, and easier for third parties to make ports for. Right now saclib2.2.0 installs fine for me on Solaris-on-sparc, and Suse, Red Hat, and Ubuntu linux-on-X86 (32-bit). There is only one distribution for it, and it tries to configure itself automatically (in a fairly simple-minded fashion). The way it is set now, a port to a different platform is pretty encapsulated, so if you folks or anyone else ports it, I can easily incorporate the port into the next saclib release. I've had someone send me a Mac OSX on x86 port, but I need access to such a machine to try it out and make it part of the saclib distro. I have access to solaris-on-x86 boxes, so I may get that port going eventually. One known issue with qepcad on some linux distros that I still haven't addressed is that on some systems that use GNU make as their "make", there is no program called "gmake" on the system, and Qepcad uses "gmake" explicitly. I'll take care of that at some future date. Also, I think I know what's in the way of a 64-bit Saclib port, but don't have the time to fix it right now. Of course when I have fixed it, there may be other problems too. How important is that issue (compiling on 64-bit machines) in your eyes? Any feedback would be very welcome. Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
