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On 2010/10/15, at 20:25 , Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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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 |
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> Camm |
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> Maguire (who seems to be gcl upstream). He was surprised to learn |
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> about |
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> the release of gmp-5, which was not on his radar because appearently |
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> 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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> ----- snap----- |
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> Comments? Ideas? |
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Wouldn't it be better to port axiom to Common Lisp and let it run on |
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any good CL implementation instead? It would surely do nicely on SBCL. |
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__Pascal Bourguignon__ |
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http://www.informatimago.com |
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