Dear Axiom Developers, Sage is a radical new idea in computer algebra system design which aims to integrate the many freely available open source computer algebra packages (and some commercial packages if you own a licensed copy) into a powerful unified environment with a common user language and interface.
Thanks to the seemingly tireless efforts of William Stein, the lead developer of Sage: http://sage.math.washington.edu/ who helped untangle and reweave the code that I hacked during the recent Sage Days 2 workshop, the Axiom interface is now available in Sage version 1.4.1.1! If you already have Axiom installed, you should be able to install Sage from http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage and immediately access Axiom in Sage. (as well as many other computer algebra packages). You will also be able to use Axiom interactively via the Sage Notebook on your desktop. If you don't have Axiom installed see: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomBinaries If you have an earlier version of Sage, you can use standard methods in Sage to upgrade to the newest version: sage -upgrade Plus you can now try Axiom online on the Sage public server. See for example: http://sage-notebook.axiom-developer.org/106 You can easily create your own new worksheets and experiment with Axiom and the other computer algebra systems integrated with Sage at this web site. Please find out more about Sage and help us improve this new Axiom user interface. The interface is already quite usable but this is only the first version and we have much more work to do to expose Axiom's powerful features, such as the Axiom library compilers SPAD and Aldor, Axiom's graphics, and Axiom's library browser to all Sage users. There is also some interesting research to be done on the subject of how best to integrate Axiom's static strongly typed programming language with the Sage user language which is based on the dynamic strong types of Python. Enjoy! Regards, Bill Page. On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:06:50 -0700, Bill Page wrote: > [about problems installing Axiom on the Sage server] > > I started on this in my /home/page directory. GCL compiles > without problems. I tried using the newest experimental > version of the build scripts for Axiom but as usual ran into > some problems that will have to be fixed for the architecture > of your machine. (Thanks for the opportunity to test this on > a 64-bit "not-quite-Debian" non-Intel multiprocessor platform > :-). Because of other commitments, it might be a couple more > days before I can get back to this. I'll let you know when > I have an operational version. On October 18, 2006 10:52 PM William Stein wrote: Thanks. I asked Bobby, and he found online that the axiom for Ubuntu 5.10 is broken. However, Axiom for the current 6.1 ? version of ubuntu works. I haven't upgraded sage.math to the current version of Ubuntu yet though. In any case, I think it will be better to have it built from source, like you're doing. The chroot jailed online open SAGE notebook has a different OS, and I was able to install the standard "apt-get axiom" into it. Now you can use Axiom at: http://sage.math.washington.edu:8100/106 Unfortunately, I messed up with the axiom.py that is included with sage-1.4.1, somehow (it's OK in the notebook, though). I'm uploading a sage-1.4.1.1 right now with the correct version included... William _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
