kfp wrote:
>
> Concerning GnuDraw: I'm having endorsed Fricas to a lot of people of which
> there are several cygwin users (mostly -nosman). The prize for endorsement
> a software is you will be asked for this and that, and especially plotting
> is a popular topic (a heritage of wxMaxima). To be short, I find GDRAW
> useful and do not know of any other (reliable) way to get some graphics
> (not HQ, I agree) for 'nosman's. It dates from 2008 as the header indicates
> and it's by no means a 'hack'.
OK, I think there is enough need for inclusion. The question now
is if version on MathAction is the current one (it was recently
updated)?
> Back to the point: why not including such kind of modules in the 'contrib'
> folder under 'experimental, quarantine' or whatever so that users can
> compile and load it themselves? At least it would be there when needed.
I have mixed feelings about this. Namely, ATM we have MathAction
for experimental code and anybody can grab code from there.
Granted, getting code from wiki pages has some problems (I click
edit and then cut and paste from edit window). But should be
able to organize this better, in particular provide download
area for contributed code.
Concerning 'contrib' in distribution tarball: if code there is
build and tested then there is not much difference from having
it included. This could change if we had a lot of contribs and
machinery to turn them on/off at configure time. OTOH if
contribs were unmaintained, then bundling them with tarball
would give wrong impression.
--
Waldek Hebisch
[email protected]
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"FriCAS - computer algebra system" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
