Re: recent versions

Tim Daly <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:13:39 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alejandro:

http://daly.axiom-developer.org:/axiom-ubuntu-nov2009-bin.tgz

Let me know if it works.

Tim

Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
> I find the recent improvements in the documentation of Axiom of paramount
> importance in trying to understand this complex system. In this 
> regards, I
> have just read about the new )describe command and found it quite 
> interesting.
>
> Anyways, I have found in another of your posts a link to a Debian 
> binary for
> the November 2009 version. I have downloaded it already but not 
> installed yet.
> Hopefully it will work in Debian Etch. Will be there an Ubuntu binary 
> for this
> (or latter) version? (if it were an issue of priorities, I would 
> prefer it to
> an updated download page).
>
> Of course, it would be wonderful if the maintainer of the Axiom 
> package in
> Debian and Ubuntu distributions could keep it updated, ideally in sync
> with the 2-month (or whatever) period source releases. See e.g.:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/etch/math/axiom
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/math/axiom
>
> This package seems stuck because of bugs and other issues.
>
> Alejandro
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Tim Daly wrote:
>
>> Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
>>> The download page 
>>> (http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html) has links 
>>> for downloading Axiom versions up to May 2009. Where are the more 
>>> recent versions?
>>>
>>> Regards, Alejandro Jakubi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> I did not create them. I will put it on the list to do.
>> You would be amazed how little time there is between releases
>> if you do them every 2 months.
>>
>> The effort has been mostly removing boot and converging the
>> interpreter into book volume 5. This doesn't change the user
>> functionality (although I've introduced )debug and )describe).
>> From my point of view the effort is continuous but I have
>> committed to time-boxed Axiom releases every 2 months.
>>
>> There is a long thread (pre-fork) about the importance of doing
>> time-boxed releases every 2 months.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>