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Hello *, |
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I've just committed aldor-1.1.0 to the science overlay. This is the first |
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open-source release (free for non-commercial use). Previous releases were |
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binary-only (free of charge for non-commercial use, x86 only). Now aldor |
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and its libraries are compiled from sources in this ebuild, and can |
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(probably) be compiled for any arch. |
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Aldor is a language developed for many years at IBM, then NAG, and now |
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aldor.org. It was designed as a replacement of the Axiom library compiler. |
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It is an excellent library for implementing computer algebra, and it has a |
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rather comprehensive foundation library (libalgebra) with many algebraic |
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domains (it is not as comprehensive as the library of Axiom, written in |
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the old language). Aldor can be used both separately and from Axiom. I am |
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sure that the next axiom ebuild must have the local USE flag "aldor" which |
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would allow using aldor from axiom (and will depend on the aldor ebuild |
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I've committed now). What I am not sure is which axiom to package, there |
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are now 3 of them :-( |
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I know that the current ebuild is far from ideal. It ignores the user's |
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CFLAGS and uses the ones supplied by the aldor folk. The build system is |
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rather non-standard, and fixing this will require patching a number of |
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makefiles. But in any case, it is better than the previous free-of-charge |
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binaries - they were compiled with the same CFLAGS chosen by aldor |
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developers, and on x86 only. So, please, try aldor-1.1.0 and report yoor |
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experiences. This is a very well designed language for doing mathematics. |
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Andrey |
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