Hi Alfredo, On February 21, 2007 8:25 PM you wrote: > Bill Page wrote: > > Do you mean something like the Doyen LiveCD? Perhaps we need > > to encourage Alfredo to produce a new version... > > No encouragement needed just more time :-). >
Oh, I know that problem! > Please let me know what Axiom "version" should I use or if > I should wait for a possible new Silver (build-improvements + > wh-sandbox). > Well, my personal opinion is that it is no good to wait. We should use the best of what we have right now. What that might be 6 months from now, it is hard to tell. Open source projects like Axiom really do not have schedules and resources like in the commercial world; it all depends on personal initiative and how much people are willing and able to give to others. For a new Linux distribution of Axiom I favour wh-sandbox. It has the greatest and most significant number of fixes and improvements as far as the end user is concerned. Waldek has done a great job of repairing and even completing parts of Hyperdoc that never were resolved in the "commerical" version. I have never liked hyperdoc much because I found it so unstable and the gui rather dry and ugly, but the new wh-sandbox version is changing my mind a little - because it actally works. Waldek has also corrected a number of significant bugs in the algebra and added Martin's GUESS package. For a new Windows distribution of Axiom hyperdoc is not an issue since there is no available hyperdoc version for Windows, but the build procedure that does not assume X-windows is important, so our best choice right now is build-improvements. Merging the downstream algebra bug fixes from wh-sandbox back into build-improvements is only a matter of using svn to pick and apply the appropriate revisions from the repository. If I some how find a few minutes of the next week, perhaps I can do that. Merging the GUESS build changes might be a bit more challenging. Even if no one gets a chance to do any merging, building a new Windows version from build-improvements is still worth it because build-improvements is based on Axiom Gold (patch-50) while the current windows build is two years old and based on about patch-30 or something like that and an older version of GCL. > ... Regards, Bill Page _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
