Dear Cygwin, I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no positive votes since then. I would have thought that by now, if there were any interest in having it in cygwin, there would have been a positive vote. I understand that 5 are required.
As I said before, Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic geometry research. Based on Groebner bases, it provides algorithms for computing homological invariants of rings and modules. Home page: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/";. In the past it has been included in Fedora 8, 9, 10, see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/Macaulay2/. Volker Zell tried compiling our older version and it didn't compile for him, but he had installed a nonstandard fortran compiler on his system, so it may not be relevant. There was some discussion about whether to include the source code for un-cygwin-packaged 3rd party libraries we use in the proposed source code package of Macaulay 2. I'm not sure the work to do so is worth it, but if that is the only objection, I would have hoped to see some conditional "yes" votes with such packaging as the condition. Let me know *soon*, as we hope to release 1.2 by the end of the month, and if it's not approved for cygwin, I'll just provide it, as I did with 1.1, on my own "setup" compatible repository. -- Daniel R. Grayson, Professor (retired, Emeritus) Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~dan/ email: [email protected] us mail: 2409 S. Vine St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA phone: +1-217-367-6384 home (88.20224W, 40.08541N) cell phone: +1-217-377-0458
