I have some questions about 4ti2. At the moment, there is an experimental Sage package for 4ti2. It doesn't work for me out of the box, but I've been tinkering with it, and I've managed to get it to build on my OS X machine. I'll try it on linux later.
Questions: If I can get it to work on the platforms I have available (Intel OS X and linux), is that good enough to submit a new spkg? (What are the standards for experimental packages, anyway?) The old package installs the various binaries (command-line tools) for 4ti2 in a directory SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/4ti2/. Should they instead be installed in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/? The old package uses glpk, but I could only get it to work by upgrading to the most recent version of glpk. glpk is another experimental package; does anyone know if anything else uses it? If not, we can just replace the old one with the new one without worrying about anything else breaking. The file interfaces/four_ti_2.py is a real mess. Should this even be present by default, or should it just be installed as part of the package? I am nowhere close to being an expert in 4ti2. I want to use its 'zsolve' command, and right now I don't care about much else. This will be reflected in what I actually implement in four_ti_2.py. I assume that this is okay, and other people can implement things when they need them. Right? Or maybe I should say, if I have to implement lots of the features of 4ti2, this whole project probably won't happen, but if I only have to implement a few, it might happen. Aside from zsolve, any ideas what my top priorities should be? John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
