Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

root wrote:
> Maintaining this confusion doesn't help the users. Imagine a new CAS
> user who decides to download several projects like pari, maxima, 
> Axiom, Fricas, and OpenAxiom. He decides to install them all and play
> with them. The end result will be 3 directories of code, only one of
> which can be used because Fricas and OpenAxiom step on Axiom and each
> other. It is clearly "the wrong thing". And there is a trivial fix.

Or imagine an *experienced* CAS user, such as myself. I have Pari and 
Maxima, though I've never really touched Pari. I have Yacas because 
there's an R library that talks to it. And I have Axiom because I 
discovered an old version of it a number of years ago on a Knoppix 
remaster by Dirk Eddelbuettel called "Quantian". There is no confusion 
on my machines simply because I don't need either FriCAS or OpenAxiom -- 
and I haven't installed them -- and I don't intend to.