[fricas-devel] cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Rubey
I tried building fricas on cygwin with sbcl. unfortunately, already configure fails, but maybe it's not as big a problem: I think it's just a filename problem. Maybe sbcl prefers windows style filenames? clisp appears to work fine, but I was unable to run the tests so far... Martin

[fricas-devel] Re: cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Martin Rubey wrote: I tried building fricas on cygwin with sbcl. unfortunately, already configure fails, but maybe it's not as big a problem: I do not think sbcl will work with cygwin. Namely at later stage we need to lead a dynamic library -- for cygwin build this is cygwin library.

[fricas-devel] Re: cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
What about fricas in a virtual box for Windows? Doesn't someone here know how to do this? If not then it is even more important that fricas works fine as an optional package for sage. Since the sage community seems produce easily installable virtual machines. I just hope that there is enough

[fricas-devel] Re: Preliminary release tarball.

2009-10-23 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
What does that command actually do? And how could that be connected to this UNREAD-CHAR? I do not know what it actually did in ECL. FriCAS catches errors tries to handle them. Default action is to abort current computation and return to toplevel. ')set break break' changes this to

[fricas-devel] Re: Preliminary release tarball.

2009-10-23 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: What does that command actually do? And how could that be connected to this UNREAD-CHAR? I do not know what it actually did in ECL. FriCAS catches errors tries to handle them. Default action is to abort current computation and return to toplevel. ')set

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
Franz, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:10:51AM -0400, Bill Page wrote: I am sorry that this took me a little longer than I had hoped. As usual some other activities interfered with my time available for FriCAS programming... :-( On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:28 AM, you wrote: thank you very much,

[fricas-devel] Re: cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: What about fricas in a virtual box for Windows? Doesn't someone here know how to do this? Doing that is very easy but I do not think it would be very satisfying to Windows users. Running VirtualBox in seamless mode is about as

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Rubey
Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org writes: Anyways it takes too much space and sage people also decided to use #. I really dislike the use of the symbol '#' for this purpose. For one thing, # is a very common prefix operator that usually denotes the size or length of something in

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread lehner
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:17:03PM -0400, Bill Page wrote: BTW, I guess the chunk test.input in 'tensor.spad.nw' still needs a little more work, right? That is why I did not include it yet in the FriCAS build. yes, that was another reason to hold it back :) Thanks for all the work! I will

[fricas-devel] Re: cygwin

2009-10-23 Thread lehner
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:04:05PM -0400, Bill Page wrote: Doing that is very easy but I do not think it would be very satisfying to Windows users. Running VirtualBox in seamless mode is about as close as you can get to the look-and-feel of a real native Windows application but as far as I

[fricas-devel] Re: und danke....

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Page
Martin, Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. I did not intend to claim that FriCAS was any more rigorous than Sage. I said: I think FriCAS should focus on greater rigor and consistency.. The point is that these two projects have quite different goals. Or rather at least I think they should