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Hi *, |
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I had a short email conversation with pchrist@g.o regarding |
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sci-mathematics/axiom, which I bumped to the latest version in the |
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science overlay. The ebuild is suboptimal, but here is my original |
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message, any comments appreciated: |
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----snip---- |
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over at the science overlay we are trying to revive |
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sci-mathematics/axiom which heavily relies on gnu common lisp (and no |
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other dialect). In fact, the current ebuild will ship an internal |
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version of what axiom upstream calls gcl-2.6.8_pre4. |
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Do you have any specific plans of reviving gcl? What are the |
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difficulties that you are facing? |
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One problem that I found myself is that gcl (at least the version that |
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comes with axiom) seems to depend on <=dev-libs/gmp-4, so I emailed Camm |
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Maguire (who seems to be gcl upstream). He was surprised to learn about |
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the release of gmp-5, which was not on his radar because appearently it |
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is not in Debian Unstable yet. |
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Ok, so this is about it. I would love to see an unmasked gcl at some |
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point. Let me know if I can help. I'm currently being recruited as a |
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developer. |
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Comments? Ideas? |
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Cheers, |
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Thomas |
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Thomas Kahle |