On 10:04 Sat 16 Oct     , Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Thomas Kahle wrote:
> > over at the science overlay we are trying to revive
> > sci-mathematics/axiom which heavily relies on gnu common lisp (and no
> > other dialect).  In fact, the current ebuild will ship an internal
> > version of what axiom upstream calls gcl-2.6.8_pre4.
> Why not just use fricas? It's in the main tree, and can be compiled by 
> sbcl, cmucl, clozurecl, clisp, ecl (and probably gcl).

Well, I did not know about it.  The other fork "OpenAxiom" is already in
the science overlay.  On the other hand, I also don't use axiom.  I'm
just trying to work on bugs assigned to sci-math@g.o.  In the end,
dropping support for the original axiom, given that there is fricas, is
one option to close these bugs.  

> > I would love to see an unmasked gcl at some point.
> Me too. Debian ships usable gcl for lots of architectures. I think we can 
> just return to the old practice: take the 2.6.7 tarball + the (huge!) 
> debian patch number <n>, and ship the result as 2.6.8_pre<n>.

Sounds good to me, and I think that is the setup axiom developers ship
because Camm Maguire is both: gcl upstream, and gcl's maintainer in
Debian.  He also provides the gcl versions for axiom.

Cheers,
Thomas



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Thomas Kahle