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RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties
From: |
Martin Rubey |
Subject: |
RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:36:21 +0100 |
1.
Weiss, Juergen writes:
> Hello,
>
> I would strongly support Camm's views on a more modular approach. With
> extremely limited development resources, if it takes month to port a little
> C application (sman) to Linux (which should require maybe two days of work),
> we should clearly focus on making things simple. This is not to criticize
> Tim for not being able to spend more time on this -- I myself have not found
> almost any time for Axiom during the last months.
>
> I would argue in favor of using out of the box tools (gcl, notangle
> etc.). Development on one Linux platform only -- others can send patches for
> other Linux platforms and other operating systems (BSD, OS X, Windows) and
> test these.
>
> I'm not an expert on CVS, Arch, Darcs. But my impression is, that we spent
> more time on changing the systems used than on using CVS on nongnu.org in an
> efficient way.
I agree wholeheartedly.
2. regarding bounties: Maybe we could simply put rewards on the items of the
WishList/TodoList. (0$ being a possible reward...)
In order to do so, we would have to agree upon the importance/benefit of the
various issues.
I think possible candidates could include
* pamphlet support on MathAction
* a Windows port
* Aldor integration
* numerical integration.
I think it would be great to get some students to work on the mathematical
side -- I know that some universities have courses where the students are to
implement the algorithms from the book A=B -- in Maple :-(. However, I'd
advise anybody who wants to implement these things to get into contact with
RISC.
Unfortunately, in my departement Axiom is of little use, R is very good at
statistics.
Martin
PS: and yes, I did not have much time for Axiom either in the past two
months. Sorry.
- [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs, Tim Daly, 2004/11/04
- RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs, Weiss, Juergen, 2004/11/18
- RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties,
Martin Rubey <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties, root, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties, Bob McElrath, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] current state and CCL, Bill Page, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] Re: current state and CCL, root, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Bill Page, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Bob McElrath, 2004/11/19
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Camm Maguire, 2004/11/19
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Martin Rubey, 2004/11/19
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Martin Rubey, 2004/11/25
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Martin Rubey, 2004/11/25