Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] Installation directory

[root]

>But they wouldn't!  Why would you think that any of your work was
>lost when you install axiom after having installed friCAS?  The only
>difference is, if the names wouldn't change, they wouldn't need to
>adjust paths they currently don't even know about.

Oh, but they DO. Try to do parallel installations.
Being able to run Fricas and Axiom in parallel would be great.




>Really, if this mess stays the same, it will drive me mad.  Already I
>have to include 3 email lists if I want to say something all axioms
>should care about, which is the case most of the time, since I'm
>working only on the algebra level.  Cooperation in this manner is for
>me such a nuisance, that I'd rather stop it.

I try hard to add the critical patches from OpenAxiom and Fricas
and I run into this all the time. I'd estimate that reverse-engineering
critical patches takes about 25% of my time. Patches rarely have
test cases that illustrate what was broken or fixed so I have to 
guess.

I've tried to minimize this pain "outward" by documenting how to 
install the new )help facility and how to install the regression 
test facility. When the new )browse facility gets more stable I'll
also document how to port it to the other systems. In addition my
patches give rather-longer explanations of what they do so it is
easier to understand if they might be of interest.

Unfortunately the )help, )browse, regression testing, and the coming
)example facilities all are closely related to literate programming
which will make them hard to port to other systems.




> I cannot understand why you want different names for the same thing!

Sigh. See the mailing list archives. 

Tim