On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:58:45 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: > > > > On 10 July 2018 at 10:48, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I could ask Michael Pohst, though he has retired. >
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. > > John > > >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:31:52 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> 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) >>> >>> I think it's unfortunately a wasted effort (as far as kash goes)... >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 9:02:24 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> On 9 July 2018 at 23:48, Alexander Konovalov <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> the >>>>> KANT code formerly used there. >>>>> >>>>> Alex >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:16:22 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Imho kash has been totally bitrotten. The last release was in 2008. >>>>>> We should just remove that package and references to it. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "sage-support" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
