C Y wrote: > --- Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 09/07/2007 01:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Bill, >>> >>>> For building Axiom on less common architectures I strongly >>>> recommend the FriCAS or OpenAxiom forks of the Axiom project. >>> I strongly object to your suggestion that someone who has requested >>> information, help, or porting assistance on this mailing list >>> should go to another project. >> Why? Isn't it "help" if someone points you to some piece of software >> that solves the problem? > > I think the point is that Axiom is a different project from > FriCAS/OpenAxiom, so having FriCAS/OpenAxiom working on a platform != > Axiom working on that platform. > > I.e., if Maple didn't happen to work on a platform of interest > suggesting Mathematica doesn't help to get Maple on that platform. > > Obviously the userland environments are still very similar at the > moment, but whether this will be true indefinitely remains to be seen. > I'd say as the various projects take SPAD/Aldor and the interpreter > different directions this will get less true, so it avoids confusion to > keep the identities of the various projects distinct. (Note that this > does not imply hostility toward those projects, just making sure the > distinction is clear to avoid confusion.) >
I'm with Tim on this one -- if I have a FriCAS question I'll post it on the FriCAS list. If I have an OpenAxiom question I'll post it on the OpenAxiom list. But I have Axiom questions, and I post them here. And I hardly think that Gentoo Linux on an Athlon64 X2 is a "less common architecture". Now that I think of it, I'm on the FriCAS and OpenAxiom lists and I haven't seen much activity. Maybe that's because the *interesting* part of the three of them is the *math*, not the mechanics of getting them up and running, and, ... well ... the math pretty much has to be the same on all of them, doesn't it? :) _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
