[Axiom-developer] FW: axiom on sage.math

[Bill Page]

Dear Axiom Developers,

Sage is a radical new idea in computer algebra system design which
aims to integrate the many freely available open source computer
algebra packages (and some commercial packages if you own a licensed
copy) into a powerful unified environment with a common user language
and interface.

Thanks to the seemingly tireless efforts of William Stein, the lead
developer of Sage:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/

who helped untangle and reweave the code that I hacked during the
recent Sage Days 2 workshop, the Axiom interface is now available
in Sage version 1.4.1.1!

If you already have Axiom installed, you should be able to install
Sage from

http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage
 
and immediately access Axiom in Sage. (as well as many other computer
algebra packages). You will also be able to use Axiom interactively
via the Sage Notebook on your desktop.

If you don't have Axiom installed see:

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomBinaries

If you have an earlier version of Sage, you can use standard methods
in Sage to upgrade to the newest version:

  sage -upgrade

Plus you can now try Axiom online on the Sage public server. See for
example:

http://sage-notebook.axiom-developer.org/106

You can easily create your own new worksheets and experiment with
Axiom and the other computer algebra systems integrated with Sage at
this web site.

Please find out more about Sage and help us improve this new Axiom
user interface. The interface is already quite usable but this is
only the first version and we have much more work to do to expose
Axiom's powerful features, such as the Axiom library compilers SPAD
and Aldor, Axiom's graphics, and Axiom's library browser to all
Sage users. There is also some interesting research to be done on the
subject of how best to integrate Axiom's static strongly typed
programming language with the Sage user language which is based on
the dynamic strong types of Python.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:06:50 -0700, Bill Page wrote:

> [about problems installing Axiom on the Sage server]
>
> I started on this in my /home/page directory. GCL compiles
> without problems. I tried using the newest experimental
> version of the build scripts for Axiom but as usual ran into
> some problems that will have to be fixed for the architecture
> of your machine. (Thanks for the opportunity to test this on
> a 64-bit "not-quite-Debian" non-Intel multiprocessor platform
> :-). Because of other commitments, it might be a couple more
> days before I can get back to this. I'll let you know when
> I have an operational version.

On October 18, 2006 10:52 PM William Stein wrote:

Thanks.

I asked Bobby, and he found online that the axiom for Ubuntu 5.10
is broken. However, Axiom for the current 6.1 ? version of ubuntu
works.  I haven't upgraded sage.math to the current version of
Ubuntu yet though.  In any case, I think it will be better to have
it built from source, like you're doing.

The chroot jailed online open SAGE notebook has a different OS,
and I was able to install the standard "apt-get axiom" into it.
Now you can use Axiom at:

         http://sage.math.washington.edu:8100/106

Unfortunately, I messed up with the axiom.py that is included
with sage-1.4.1, somehow (it's OK in the notebook, though).
I'm uploading a sage-1.4.1.1 right now with the correct version
included...

William