Greetings! Tim, your contributions and reservoir of knowledge are outstanding and much appreciated -- never doubt it!
Of course nothing lives forever, and rare and precious are the opportunities to contribute something genuinely useful to others, however temporary this utility may ultimately prove to be. But if I may be so bold, there is more than one definition of 'dead'. For ambitious research and innovation purposes, AXIOM may be dead, only time will tell. I would offer the humble suggestion that as most of these innovation ideas are in your head or at most in the heads of a few others, that they are far more likely to 'see the light of day' if you can stage them in smallish incremental steps that other 'users' can build, explore and learn from. AXIOM as the currently shipped package across all Debian platforms based on your last 2017 sources is certainly not and will not be 'dead'. It would be helpful, but not required, if three things were established to support 'archival' AXIOM, which thankfully turn out to be very easy: 1) git, 2) simple webpage, 3) download section with historical tarball releases. Even OpenAXIOM, which AFAICS has been 'dead' since 2013, has these still accessible. Putting the github question aside for the moment (see below), one immediately available option is your existing account on savannah. And the FSF as host is likely far more long lived and resistant to the Microsoft/2FA 'innovations for your protection' issues you have experienced. Where was axiom-developer.org hosted, and where are its contents now? Arthur Norman <a...@cam.ac.uk> writes: > BTW I think my views regarding Microsoft and github and 2-factor > authentication may not be identical to yours but I am not terribly > cheery about all such. So for some of what I do for myself I host a > git repository on a Raspberry Pi (!) and a FEW selected people are > given access. And I control everything. > Bravo. Of course we must have sympathy for the horrendous cybersecurity issues facing these centralized 'enterprise solution' organizations. But we can all see where this is going -- "I'm sorry, Hal, unlocking your toothbrush requires 10FA and you only have 9..." Surely future historians will marvel how in the face of the Promethean gift of computing and the internet humanity abandoned the liberating power at its fingertips in favor of ceding ever more control over its functioning, communications, and data to centralized organizations and machines. Take care, -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- 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 fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/87cyftiyty.fsf%40maguirefamily.org.
