On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:58:45 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
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> On 10 July 2018 at 10:48, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
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>> I imagine it makes little sense to ask for open-sourcing the kash package 
>> (have they sold stuff to somewhere, maybe?), although I might be wrong.
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> I could ask Michael Pohst, though he has retired.
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it's probably hopeless, as kash uses  Magma sources, see
ftp://ftp.math.tu-berlin.de/pub/algebra/Kant/Kash_3/README

We would like to thank

o   Prof. J. Cannon at the University of Sydney, for the opportunity
    of using the MAGMA C-kernel for the development of KANT V4,
    the algorithmic part of KASH.


 

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> John
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>> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:31:52 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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>>> surprisingly, there are freash trac tickets proposing kash interface 
>>> improvements:
>>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25488
>>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25494
>>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22982 (a meta-ticket where kash is a 
>>> part of)
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>>> I think it's unfortunately a wasted effort (as far as kash goes)...
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>>> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 9:02:24 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
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>>>> Thanks for the replies.  There should be a ticket opened for removing 
>>>> the current instructions to use kash, whether or not they are replaced by 
>>>> something else.
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>>>> John
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>>>> On 9 July 2018 at 23:48, Alexander Konovalov <[email protected]> 
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>>>>> Note that the Alnuth package for GAP switched from KANT to PARI/GP,
>>>>> with the support of the Bill Allombert who provided an equivalent of 
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>>>>> KANT code formerly used there.
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>>>>> Alex
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>>>>> On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:16:22 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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>>>>>> Imho kash has been totally bitrotten. The last release was in 2008.
>>>>>> We should just remove that package and references to it.
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