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* Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1
@ 2009-01-07 19:04 Daniel R. Grayson
  2009-01-07 19:14 ` Christopher Faylor
  2009-01-07 22:56 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Daniel R. Grayson @ 2009-01-07 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps; +Cc: dan


Dear Cygwin,

I submitted an ITP for Macaulay 2 on Nov 11 and there have been no positive
votes since then.  I would have thought that by now, if there were any interest
in having it in cygwin, there would have been a positive vote.  I understand
that 5 are required.

As I said before, Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic geometry
research.  Based on Groebner bases, it provides algorithms for computing
homological invariants of rings and modules.  Home page:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/".  In the past it has been included in
Fedora 8, 9, 10, see
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/Macaulay2/.

Volker Zell tried compiling our older version and it didn't compile for him,
but he had installed a nonstandard fortran compiler on his system, so it may
not be relevant.

There was some discussion about whether to include the source code for
un-cygwin-packaged 3rd party libraries we use in the proposed source code
package of Macaulay 2.  I'm not sure the work to do so is worth it, but if that
is the only objection, I would have hoped to see some conditional "yes" votes
with such packaging as the condition.

Let me know *soon*, as we hope to release 1.2 by the end of the month, and if
it's not approved for cygwin, I'll just provide it, as I did with 1.1, on my
own "setup" compatible repository.

--
              Daniel R. Grayson, Professor (retired, Emeritus)
              Department of Mathematics
              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        www:  http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~dan/
      email:  dan@math.uiuc.edu
    us mail:  2409 S. Vine St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
      phone:  +1-217-367-6384 home (88.20224W, 40.08541N)
 cell phone:  +1-217-377-0458

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* [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1
@ 2008-11-12  1:53 Daniel R. Grayson
  2008-11-13 14:24 ` Daniel R. Grayson
  2008-11-17 19:42 ` Dr. Volker Zell
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Daniel R. Grayson @ 2008-11-12  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps; +Cc: dan


Dear Cygwin,

We'd like to distribute Macaulay 2 as an official cygwin package.  The package
is used by hundreds of mathematicians as part of their research, and hundreds
of published research papers, listed on our web site have cited it.  It has
been developed over the years through generous funding from the National
Science Foundation.

It is not included in a major Linux distribution.

The package files, including the setup.hint file, are visible at 

    http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/Repositories/cygwin/Macaulay2/

and are ready for uploading.

Here is the setup.hint file:

    # -*- sh -*-
    # this file is part of the Macaulay 2 cygwin package
    sdesc: "a software system for algebraic geometry research"
    ldesc: "Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic geometry research.
     Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic geometry research, written by
     Daniel R. Grayson and Michael E. Stillman.  Based on Groebner bases, it
     provides algorithms for computing homological invariants of rings and
     modules.
     Home page: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/"
    category: Math
    # here are the requirements for version 1.1
    #   requires: cygwin lapack libgdbm4 libreadline6 libncurses8
    # the requirements for later versions are listed automatically and ought to be similar:
    requires: cygwin libgdbm4 libncurses8 libreadline6

--
              Daniel R. Grayson, Professor (retired, Emeritus)
              Department of Mathematics
              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        www:  http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~dan/
      email:  dan@math.uiuc.edu
    us mail:  2409 S. Vine St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
      phone:  +1-217-367-6384 home (88.20224W, 40.08541N)
 cell phone:  +1-217-377-0458

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2009-01-07 19:17   ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-07 19:39   ` Daniel R. Grayson
2009-01-07 22:56 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2009-01-08  1:42   ` Daniel R. Grayson
2009-01-08 10:30     ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-01-08 16:47       ` Daniel R. Grayson
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2008-11-12  1:53 Daniel R. Grayson
2008-11-13 14:24 ` Daniel R. Grayson
2008-11-13 14:33   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-11-13 18:17     ` Daniel R. Grayson
2008-11-14  8:52       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-11-14  9:01         ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-11-14  9:24           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-11-14 14:18           ` Daniel R. Grayson
2008-11-14 15:13     ` Reini Urban
2008-11-17 19:42 ` Dr. Volker Zell

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