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Hi, |
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Thomas Kahle <tom111@×××.de>: |
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> On 10:04 Sat 16 Oct , Andrey G. Grozin wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > (and no other dialect). In fact, the current ebuild will ship an |
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> > > internal version of what axiom upstream calls gcl-2.6.8_pre4. |
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> > Why not just use fricas? It's in the main tree, and can be compiled |
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> > by sbcl, cmucl, clozurecl, clisp, ecl (and probably gcl). |
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> Well, I did not know about it. The other fork "OpenAxiom" is already |
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> in the science overlay. On the other hand, I also don't use axiom. |
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> I'm just trying to work on bugs assigned to sci-math@g.o. In the end, |
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> dropping support for the original axiom, given that there is fricas, |
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> is one option to close these bugs. |
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And last rite axiom, with two alternatives available. |
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> > > I would love to see an unmasked gcl at some point. |
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> > Me too. Debian ships usable gcl for lots of architectures. I think |
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> > we can just return to the old practice: take the 2.6.7 tarball + |
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> > the (huge!) debian patch number <n>, and ship the result as |
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> > 2.6.8_pre<n>. |
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> Sounds good to me, and I think that is the setup axiom developers ship |
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> because Camm Maguire is both: gcl upstream, and gcl's maintainer in |
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> Debian. He also provides the gcl versions for axiom. |
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That sounds like totally selfish and retarded. Why not prepare a |
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proper release to ease burden for all the packagers of other |
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distributions out there. |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |