Re: sponsor wanted - giac/Xcas, computer algebra system with nice GUI

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

+1 from me; glad to see it getting packaged.

--elijah


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:34:32 +0100
> From: Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime <carleos@www.uica.info>
> Reply-To: carleos@uniovi.es
> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> Subject: sponsor wanted - giac/Xcas, computer algebra system with nice GUI
> Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:51:09 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
>
> References:
>
> ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155075
> Previous thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/04/msg00212.html
>
> GIAC is a computer algebra system developed by Bernard Parisse, author
> of the algebra software of HP 49G, 40G, 49G+, 48GII calculators.  It
> includes :
>
> - Xcas, an FLTK-based feature-rich GUI (equation editor,
>  turtle graphics, ...).
>
> - A C++ library, packaged as "libgiac0" and "libgiac0-dev".
>
> - Tutorials in English, French and Spanish ("giac-doc").
>
> - Extensive documentation in French ("giac-doc-nonfree").
>
> GIAC's homepage is
> 	http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html
>
> There is a package avaiable at mentors.debian.net:
> 	http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/giac/