> Anyway, whatever happens to 'sman' I hope that > '-nosman' will be obsolete in the future.
That's fine with me. My point partially is that I am not programming anything new. There are already nice interfaces. Jupyter is one of them. It's just that one has to connect them to FriCAS. The problem with these interfaces is that when they need to terminate the underlying program they usually expect just one process and kill them, that does not always reliably terminate subprocesses, that's at least what happened to me. In a previous ifricas version the jupyter notebook started a script that called "fricas -nox". And already having that and not "exec fricas -nox" left lots of sman and AXIOMsys processes running while I was experimenting with the interface. I'm not sure whether sman will ever be able to work with such frontends if these frontends have a certain (incompatible) idea of how they kill and restart an underlying backend. If you think that sman can be made working reliably with such frontends, I certainly don't insist on starting AXIOMsys directly. However, my previous mail was asking whether there is some more things except AXIOMsys, HyperDoc, and the Graphics that managed by sman. Reading sman.c it looks like CLEF and some session manager program is started and spadclient. Would you miss it if it weren't there and we had only AXIOMsys? I (for my taste) probably wouldn't miss anything if I just start AXIOMsys in "jupyter notebook". If you want to keep sman and its subprocess structure, fine. It's open source development and FriCAS is your child. My direction would be to concentrate on algebra and let frontend be maintained by somebody else (the jupyter people for example). We just need the glueing code. Ralf -- 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.
