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Stelian Ionescu wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:33:52AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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>> Is GCL (upstream) really in trouble? I know SBCL is the most actively |
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>> maintained open source Common Lisp these days, but quite a few |
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>> projects have some GCL dependencies. The Axiom project (and its |
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>> forks) seem to be moving to Clisp, but their base build is still |
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>> GCL-based. |
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> the Axiom project, well knowing GCL's problems, maintains its own GCL |
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> fork which is included in the tarballs it provides. I don't know about |
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> the other Axiom forks, since neither OpenAxiom nor FreeCAS are in |
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> portage |
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> that leaves maxima: infact the only reason why maxima still hangs to GCL |
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> is because they have no alternative to GCL on Windows, but that's not a |
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> problem for us |
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Yeah ... I just posted my knowledge dump of Axiom and forks ... |
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The whole Axiom fork situation was/is rather tense -- a lot of |
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ego-bashing/flaming on the mailing lists, etc. And then there's the |
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whole Aldor licensing issue. NAG released it with a *non-commercial* |
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clause in its license, which makes it incompatible with lots of other |
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open source/free as in freedom licenses. |
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Axiom is, as far as I'm concerned, a "better" CAS than Maxima for a |
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variety of reasons. But when there are three forks and the leads of each |
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trash each other on mailing lists, I don't see how it can *stay* better |
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than Maxima. I've said as much on the mailing lists. Ah well ... that's |
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what makes open source fun, right? :) |
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