[Axiom-developer] Re: Linking Axiom to a scientific library - MPFR?

[yigal]

Yes, I see you have.  Sorry just read a thread made a year.
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 22:05 -0800, yigal wrote:
> Has anyone considered linking some of Axiom's functions with MPFR?  If
> not I think this library should be looked into.  It seams very small but
> it is LGPL.
> 
> Yigal
>   
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:59 -0500, Bill Page wrote:
> > On January 30, 2006 8:21 PM Yigal Weinstein wrote:
> > 
> > > ...
> > > The one way gpl'd programs have an advantage on proprietary
> > > software is that they can use existing gpl'd programs without
> > > worrying about licenses etc..  For instance consider all the
> > > work done in Fortran like quadpack etc..  Axiom if asked for
> > > a numerical result could if linking was considered could use
> > > the existing libraries to compute practically any function.   
> > >
> > > In fact this is just the strategy used by the proprietary Axiom.
> > > To link it to NAG was what was done.  There are plenty of high
> > > quality libraries that can be used for numerical approximations
> > > in Fortran that are gpl: lapack is but one of them.
> > 
> > I agree completely that a replacement for the NAG interface is
> > urgently needed for the open source version of Axiom.
> > 
> > I would be very pleased to help anyone who is motivated to
> > develop an interface to a LGPL library that would provide some
> > of this lost functionality.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Bill Page.
> > 
> >