Bertfried Fauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > first, is that reliable information?
I think so. The thread that CY linked to had a link to the MuPAD founder's website, http://fuchssteiner.info/, which discusses it, and the thread also contains comments from Christopher Creutzig, a MuPAD developer (although he says he's not technically a developer). I don't see MuPAD going away soon; I think there are some big projects that use it, but its user base will shrink quite a bit (most users use a free license), and so its long term viability doesn't look good. > If so it would be a desater to the fruiltful and active work on the > tremendouly good combinat package of MuPad. However, some of those > developers might have MuPad source, I have to be > inquisitive. Anyhow, it would have officially to go open source. Right now, it seems to be going the other way: more commercial. The library sources have always been available to read, and there was talk about putting them under a free license. I don't know if that's still the plan or not. > The point is that MuPad code is very AXIOMish I know some people working with Scratchpad switched to MuPAD; perhaps they'll come back. > and I was thinking of 'stealing' some of teh combinat code for > AXIOM, hmm, perhaps the only way for that package not to perish... Is the combinatoric code in the kernel or libraries? If the libraries, it can at least be studied, and the authors' names are listed so perhaps you can get permission to port it. Jay _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
