Hello *,
I've just committed aldor-1.1.0 to the science overlay. This is the first
open-source release (free for non-commercial use). Previous releases were
binary-only (free of charge for non-commercial use, x86 only). Now aldor
and its libraries are compiled from sources in this ebuild, and can
(probably) be compiled for any arch.
Aldor is a language developed for many years at IBM, then NAG, and now
aldor.org. It was designed as a replacement of the Axiom library compiler.
It is an excellent library for implementing computer algebra, and it has a
rather comprehensive foundation library (libalgebra) with many algebraic
domains (it is not as comprehensive as the library of Axiom, written in
the old language). Aldor can be used both separately and from Axiom. I am
sure that the next axiom ebuild must have the local USE flag "aldor" which
would allow using aldor from axiom (and will depend on the aldor ebuild
I've committed now). What I am not sure is which axiom to package, there
are now 3 of them :-(
I know that the current ebuild is far from ideal. It ignores the user's
CFLAGS and uses the ones supplied by the aldor folk. The build system is
rather non-standard, and fixing this will require patching a number of
makefiles. But in any case, it is better than the previous free-of-charge
binaries - they were compiled with the same CFLAGS chosen by aldor
developers, and on x86 only. So, please, try aldor-1.1.0 and report yoor
experiences. This is a very well designed language for doing mathematics.
Andrey
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