C Y wrote:
> Presumably, but we need to know who commits stuff, who verifies it,
> etc. I've been trying to get some kind of structure togeather, but
> Richard is understandably reluctant to lead and no one has volunteered.
I have other things on my plate at the moment, but there is
a possibility that next semester (jan 2002 ) will be
less busy; I will
be teaching a graduate seminar and it might even be possible
that some students there could help. Though making a windows
installation script is not something I know anything about,
and could not expect a student to know. These are graduate
students mostly...
There is a possibility of some help from people who know
very well how to do such things at Franz Inc; I have not
found anyone with "spare time" but the idea of having an
allegro common lisp (which has an interactive development
environment etc etc) and a macsyma "dll" seems quite
feasible.
The tricky part though is that not everyone wants
to use a commercial lisp, even if it is sort of free
(student/ demo "tryout"). Also the student versions
may not have the amount of free storage we might want.
(Asking Franz Inc to make a "free Maxima" when it
is tantamount to asking them to give away the program
that they sell, does not work. ... in case you
haven't noticed, you can take any version of maxima
and with a bit of typing change it into the underlying
lisp..)
Outside of the Maxima issue, is there a GCL group, or
leader?
RJF