On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:48 AM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > I am really excited about this. My vote would be a big +1. > > I guess that, at least for a (long) while, both gap interfaces will > coexist, since lot of code deppends on the old pexpect one. But the > speed difference is so big that i think it would be worth the effort > of porting old code to the new interface.
How hard will porting code be? How much different is the interface that Volker ended up developing for libGAP? And +1 for a new libgap spkg. -- William > > On 23 sep, 15:40, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> LibGAP (the C library interface to GAP) is finally usable and ready to be >> released into the wild! We will ship it as a separate spkg since >> * Upstream doesn't build a shared library >> * The build system is replaced by standard autotools >> * To avoid symbol collisions every gap function and global variable is >> renamed with a libGAP_ prefix >> * We add hooks to input/output, error handling, and the GAP memory >> manager. >> >> Actually, prefixing the symbols in a library might be a good idea in other >> libraries that were not originally written with sharing in mind. If two >> functions have the same name in two shared libraries, then (at least on >> Linux) the first one wins which is almost certainly not what the second >> library wants. LibGAP does the prefixing with a script using the python ply >> module to identify the globals. >> >> Per the usual rules, new spkgs need a vote so now is your chance to be >> heard ;-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
