Re: downloading sources stale?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:47:12PM -0400, Bill Page wrote:
> Certainly a lot is going on in the Axiom project but there has not
> been any recent offi/ial release and corresponding tarball.
> Currently there are four versions to choose from in the source code
> repositories Gold (oldest;. Silver (trunk of svn repository at
> SourceForge). build-improvements, and wh-sandbox, plus a recent fork
> of the Axiom project called FriCAS that is based on a different
> development philosophy. Please ask if need more information.
>

thanks for the answer!

I've read through the axiom-book, and it looked quite good, until
I realised that this anti-syntax like in python is used: That's
a show-stopper. In principle, of course, such indentation-games
should be only part of the user-interface, and one should be
able to go to the level of the "real syntax" and use brackets
as usual (or treat it as a different user interface)
 --- but unfortunately I have never seen it, and so I
fear that also Axiom only accepts input in that indentation-format?

Oliver

 
> On 7/30/07, Oliver Kullmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of choosing a new
> > computer algebra system, to be integrated
> > into the generative (active) C++ library
> > I'm developing. Being appalled by Sage
> > because of their programming language (python),
> > I tried Maxima, which is kind of fun, the good
> > olden Lisp days, but it seems that development
> > has stopped. By the way, I used to use mupad,
> > but since now there are no free versions of it anymore,
> > I have to use (and migrate to) a new system.
> >
> > So well, what now surprises me with Axiom is that at
> > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSources
> > only a version from September 2005 is available (I mean
> > the tarball) ??
> > So has development of Axiom also stopped??? But according
> > to the mailing lists, there is still something going on?
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Oliver Kullmann
> > Computer Science Department
> > University of Wales Swansea
> > Faraday Building, Singleton Park
> > Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
> > http://cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/
> >
> >
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Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Computer Science Department
University of Wales Swansea
Faraday Building, Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
http://cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/