[sage-devel] Re: clisp.run 2.41 segfaults on Solaris 9 in 32 bit mode

2007-08-17 Thread znmeb
On Aug 17, 8:31 pm, "Michael Abshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This is CC to the google group sage-devel] > > Hello clisp folks, > > the Sage people are currently trying to make Sage run on Solaris in 32 bit > mode. That involves a working clisp to make Maxima work. > > We compile clisp wit

[sage-devel] A plea for sanity, forks, Sage, Axiom, Fricas, Open-Axiom, Changelogs, etc.

2007-08-12 Thread znmeb
First of all, I'm "just a user" -- a working programmer/applied mathematician (45 years and counting.) I've been doing this since *before* ScratchPad. Perhaps some of you have heard of FORMAC? I was working at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, when Jean Sammet and her colleagues released it! And I was ther

[sage-devel] Yacas in Sage?

2007-08-11 Thread znmeb
Has anyone considered adding Yacas to Sage? They just released version 1.1.0, and have an ambitious road map that seems at least philosophically compatible with Sage. See http://yacas.sf.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=F0A91E14-1B68-435F-93A9-313ECF8400AF%40xs4

[sage-devel] Re: Problem building "linbox" on Gentoo Linux (gcc 4.2.0)

2007-07-29 Thread znmeb
The build is complete. I actually ended up doing it in two passes. The first pass was a simple "make -j" which took about 18 minutes: real18m8.232s user26m41.442s sys 6m41.761s This is a 2P. Interestingly enough, the load average got up into the 60s at one point, but the system never

[sage-devel] Re: posible licence issue raised by GPL-v3

2007-07-29 Thread znmeb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Creative Commons creates a legal equivalent of public domain where it doesn't > already exist. At that point, Microsoft can use it, improve / harm it in any > way they like, take all the credit, and turn a profit. It's essentially a > license to relicense it under y

[sage-devel] Re: Problem building "linbox" on Gentoo Linux (gcc 4.2.0)

2007-07-29 Thread znmeb
On Jul 29, 12:19 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Technically speaking, all of my systems run "testing" level Gentoo, so > > this sort of thing is to be expected. I can easily drop back to a > > stable GCC any time I want to, or for that matter, just force a 4.1.2 > > compile for

[sage-devel] Re: posible licence issue raised by GPL-v3

2007-07-29 Thread znmeb
While I think the goals of the FSF in general and the various and sundry versions of the GPL in particular are in many senses noble, I *bitterly* resent the complexity of the GPL, especially version 3. The implication of that complexity is that a programmer who wishes to develop free software must

[sage-devel] Re: Problem building "linbox" on Gentoo Linux (gcc 4.2.0)

2007-07-29 Thread znmeb
On Jul 28, 10:16 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately linbox won't build yet with GCC >= 4.2.0. The linbox > developers > are painfully aware of this, and it's evidently a nontrivial problem for them > to > fix. SAGE-2.7.2 (which I just uploaded moments ago) will buil