Hi Bill,
Happy holidays to you and everybody!
I have not done as much as I wish on OpenAxiom this year. However, it is
not dead :-)
I am very much open to experiments in OpenAxiom and branches.
There are quite a few things I would like to do in the coming months:
* Make OpenAxiom less reliant on Lisp, and more native, possibly with an
LLVM backend. LLVM is available on more platforms (I care about) than Lisp
is. The major downside with LLVM, of course, is its policy of frequent API
breaking changes.
* More algebra work -- this may require more core language work and more
build system work. As you know, OpenAxiom can bootstrap without cached
Lisp intermediate files. Also, I believe OpenAxiom no longer needs an
existing domain database when bootstrapping. That means making changes to
the algebra is now easier. There may be a few kinks to work out.
* Make OpenAxiom buildable again on Windows platforms. A some point, we
lost that ability, I don't know what happened. That is ironic given my
daytime occupation. :-) I want to accomplish an integration with VS Code
to allow better experience. I would love to see what you did with your
QT-based project here.
I have more projects in mind, but for the coming year I think this will do,
given my track record :-)
-- Gaby
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org>
wrote:
> Gaby,
>
> I noticed a recent commit to OpenAxiom on GitHub and it reminded me of
> my New Year's resolution to do more work with Axiom. I did some work
> early-on this year with OpenAxiom QT gui interface (adding LaTeX
> output and extending various features like document save/load, etc.)
> but I did not quite get to the point of making a pull request. Coding
> in QT was a "learning experience" ... There are also a number of
> projects and experiments on the algebra side for most of which I have
> to used FriCAS or Sage. I began to realize that many of the features I
> was missing in FriCAS already existed in OpenAxiom and it occurred to
> me that perhaps I should change my focus.
>
> I was wondering if you have specific plans for OpenAxiom in the coming
> year and whether you would be interested in work that I might commit?
>
> Thanks and Happy New Year.
>
> Bill Page.
>
>
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