[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-29 Thread John Cremona
Watch this space for a very helpful response from Christoph Ludwig which I will forward... John On 29/10/2007, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 29, 2:22 am, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28 Oct, 20:26, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > OK, so I w

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 29, 2:22 am, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Oct, 20:26, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, so I wasn't trying to suggest that I was the first to have got as > > far but every little helps, and if Johannes remembers to ask > > Christoph then he may be sp

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread Bill Hart
On 28 Oct, 20:26, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so I wasn't trying to suggest that I was the first to have got as > far but every little helps, and if Johannes remembers to ask > Christoph then he may be sprred into action. > > As for physically GPL-ing the code, here's wh

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread John Cremona
OK, so I wasn't trying to suggest that I was the first to have got as far but every little helps, and if Johannes remembers to ask Christoph then he may be sprred into action. As for physically GPL-ing the code, here's what I did for mwrank, where admittedly the source code was not split int

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread Bill Hart
Hi John, If I recall correctly, William Stein already asked Christoph if a GPL'd version of LiDIA was coming. His posts on the LiDIA list indicate that Prof. Buchmann has agreed and that as far as he (Christoph) is concerned, LiDIA is GPL'd. Christoph said he would produce a GPL'd version of the

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread William Stein
On 10/28/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked JB specifically about GPL'ing LiDIA and he immediately agreed > saying there was no problem with that as far as he is concerned. He > said we should approach Christoph Ludwig who is the person currently > in charge of LiDIA. I guess

[sage-devel] Re: LiDIA

2007-10-28 Thread John Cremona
Bill's post reminded to me to report on a discussion I had about 10 days ago with Johannes Buchmann. Buchmann's group created LiDIA about 15 years ago. At the time, the fact that LiDIA would exist and be a C++ package was what concinved me to convert all my old programs to C++ (from Algol68 if y

[sage-devel] Re: Lidia in SAGE?

2006-10-12 Thread William Stein
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:14:20 -0700, William Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is either Lidia or NTL linked into SAGE? LiDIA will never be included in SAGE because of lack of support and it is licensed under a very restrictive license. NTL is *key* component of SAGE, and is very well integrated