On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:40:26PM -0700, mabshoff wrote:
> > > > * Solaris: I finally *fixed* the symmetrica issues and all it took
> > > > was 6 hours of staring at disgusting code.
> ...
> > And thanks so much for the investment you did into this.
> ...
> In the end I know that there are bits in Symmetrica that are useful to
> the combinat project and not available anywhere else. But we have to
> weigh short term gain with long term pain and I doubt you will find
> any sucker willing to work on the Symmetrica codebase and for
> symmetric functions there is a much better maintained alternative
> codebase that is licensed the right way and takes relatively little
> work to get the same functionality we currently have. And maybe it is
> even faster :)
Note that I did not choose to go for Symmetrica in the first place!
In MuPAD-Combinat, I already had done the work of replacing it
whenever possible by lrcalc.
What I am rejoicing about is that your work did buy us some time out
so that at least for this particular transition, we are not in a
complete rush :-)
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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