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[Axiom-developer] RE: Axiom+Texmacs


From: Page, Bill
Subject: [Axiom-developer] RE: Axiom+Texmacs
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:59:29 -0500

On Monday, March 06, 2006 3:14 PM Tim Yamin wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tip - turns out this is a bug in the packaging 
> code. The wrapper to launch AXIOMsys is the same one as that
> to launch 'axiom' and hence the double prompt issue :)

I am glad you found it!

> 
> Also it might be a good idea to add a noweb security patch 
> [1] to Axiom since Axiom builds and uses its own distribution
> and the version currently there has a few holes that could do
> with plugging :)
>

Thanks for the "heads up" about noweb.

My preference would be to stop re-distributing noweb with Axiom.
What Axiom needs can be accomplished with a simple awk filter.
See:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-12/msg00230.ht
ml
 
[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sci-mathematics/axi
om/files/noweb-2.9-insecure-tmp-file.patch.input?rev=HEAD&content-type=t
ext/plain
 




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