On 12/19/2014 06:56 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Recently Raymond Rogers noted that ')savesystem' command in FriCAS
> does not work.

Before I say Raymond's mail, I had not heard about )savesystem.
So I grepped the sources and found it in src/etc/summary. Yes, exactly,
It's not mentioned anywhere. Also hyperdoc doesn't know about it and I
cannot find it in The Book (not even in the printed version).

That means, I wouldn't miss )savesystem and I guess, nobody else will
miss it, because it was only visible via )summary.

)savesystem somehow reminds me of what Sage has. I haven't looked into
the details, but their seems to be a "pickle.jar" that stores
precomputed data in a form that can easily be loaded into python. Having
a binary form could be useful, if a user wants to load several MB of
precomputed stuff, but if savesystem basically only saves the state of
which packages/domains had been loaded before, then it's pretty useless
nowadays.

Anyway, with an eye towards making FriCAS relying less on an underlying
LISP system, I am rather in favour of removing )savesystem.

More opinions?

Ralf

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