Bill Page wrote:
Project 4: create a package management system for Axiom
Bill, would this entail either interfacing with and/or polishing the
"database" system Axiom uses for mathematical relationships?
Tim was kind enough to explain a bit what the "database" actually is and
some of the design considerations behind it here:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-10/msg00293.html
I might be wrong, but wouldn't any package mechanism be intimately
connected with this system? If so, perhaps the first project would be
to thoroughly document the design of the "database" system (perhaps
"datahash" would be more appropriate?) and then from there either
modernize it as appropriate to make it easier to accomplish the new
tasks like a package system or proceed to implement the package system
if the current setup is robust enough to handle it?
Perhaps Waldek and Gaby could comment, having worked with this system in
the branches?
One functionality for package authors that would be really nice is a way
to automatically generate a list of functionality they are using in all
the code in a file or package. This is particularly good for cases
where multiple packages outside the main Axiom tree are used together
and thus one or more requirements might not be present "by default."
Cheers,
CY
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