On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:08:45 UTC+2, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > 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. >
I didn't think of that. The wiki is a real treasure chest which I (re)discovered only recently and it will hardly be possible to include only a fraction of useful contribs. > > 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. > > I admit it was a bit headily to propose as I'm aware of the nuisance of orphaned contrib folders. > -- > Waldek Hebisch > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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.
