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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 (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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> Why not just use fricas? It's in the main tree, and can be compiled by |
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> 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 in |
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the science overlay. On the other hand, I also don't use axiom. I'm |
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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, is |
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one option to close these bugs. |
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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 we can |
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> just return to the old practice: take the 2.6.7 tarball + the (huge!) |
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> debian patch number <n>, and ship the result as 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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Cheers, |
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Thomas |
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