[Ecls-list] writefile does not write



Okay, I pulled Ecl from git, with current ID

ea0fdff00734051a1c775c2740ddb2a92122e93c

Now writefile in Maxima works:

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(%i1) writefile("Test.log");
Starts dribbling to Test.log (2011/11/7, 18:44:40).
NIL
Evaluation took 0.0010 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o1) done
(%i2) 10!;
Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o2) 3628800
(%i3) 100!;
Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o3) 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000
(%i4) closefile(); 
NIL 
Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed) 
(%o4) done 

kullmann-0:OKplatform> cat Test.log

Starts dribbling to Test.log (2011/11/7, 18:44:40).
NIL
Evaluation took 0.0010 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o1) done
(%i2) Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o2) 3628800
(%i3) Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
(%o3) 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000
(%i4) 
Finished dribbling to Test.log.kullmann-0:OKplatform>
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Would be good if also the input would appear (and a concluding end-of-line
after closefile() would likely also be good).

W.r.t. speed: This version seems 3% faster (on our test-set) then the Ecl-version
I got from CVS (still 3% slower than the January-version).

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:05:06PM +0100, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> Just a brief question: did you use ECL from git or from CVS? It seems the
> later repository has become somewhat obsolete. I cannot really say, because
> I have a firewall that prevents me from using CVS in the office, but I
> checked again with Linux/Ubuntu on a 64-bit machine and everything works
> fine with Maxima.

I guess the information at
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/download.html
should be updated:

My impression from that page was that the cvs-archive is the authoritative one,
while the git-archives would only mirror it.

Thanks for your help!

Oliver

-- 
Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Department of Computer Science
College of Science, Swansea University
Faraday Building, Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/