On Nov 13, 2007 2:50 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried emailing the author of mathguide several times a few years ago,
> with no response. Of course, my email was in English, which might have been
> the
> problem. In any case, I did not get the impression that it was open source.
> Either I am wrong or I presume this guy got permission from the
> mathguide author to distribute a derived work based on his code?
It's probably open source I guess, since the web page says
(translated) "Freeware is and with all sources is spread". Perhaps a
German speaker could look at
http://www.math.uni-siegen.de/ring/mathGUIde
and confirm this.
William
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> On Nov 12, 2007 9:33 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 13, 2007 1:35 AM, Téragone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm also working on a GUI for pari/gp. I started with mathGuide from
> > > which I
> > > removed the Python plugin
> >
> > Wow, thanks for pointing out mathGuide, which I had never heard about
> > before.
> > Since this is in English, I translation of the web page
> > http://www.math.uni-siegen.de/ring/mathGUIde
> > is here:
> > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.math.uni-siegen.de%2Fring%2FmathGUIde%2Findex.html
> >
> > It's interesting how that project is fairly similar to Sage
> > (http://sagemath.org)
> > in many ways. E.g., see this screenshot which looks very much like
> > the screen shot for mathGUIde:
> > http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage-screenshot.png
> >
> > >. I call gp in application mode, not in library
> > > mode.
> > > I use most of the code of gp.c and I redirect the output to a global
> > > string. Maybe not the best way, but it's easy to code and it work.
> >
> > Interestingly the Sage GP GUI also uses GP rather than the PARI
> > C library for the GUI (though Sage also uses PARI). Anyway,
> > here is a screenshot from Sage that actually looks a lot like
> > yours below:
> >
> > http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage-pari.png
> >
> > > For now, my new code is source compatible only. All the modifications have
> > > been include in #ifdef/#endif so the "original" gp compile and work with
> > > no
> > > modification.
> > > Still many hours before it will work correctly. I use Qt so it must be
> > > possible to port it on many OS. I only tested it on Linux. Here a
> > > screenshot
> > > :
> > >
> > > http://pages.videotron.com/teragone/gui.png
> > >
> > > Please, let me know if you have interest for that.
> >
> > I'm excited that there is so much enthusiasm and energy for open source
> > projects / guis, etc., related to mathematical software right now. I
> > wonder
> > if you've solved any problems I don't know how to solve (and conversely)
> > related to such things?
> >
> > -- William
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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