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Bug#291432: marked as done (RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI)

Your message dated Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:59:44 -0700
with message-id <E1F9oLw-0006yo-DM@merkel.debian.org>
and subject line WNPP bug closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : gtybalt
  Version         : 1.1.2
  Upstream Author : Stefan Weinzierl <stefanw (at) fis.unipr.it>
* URL             : http://www.fis.unipr.it/~stefanw/gtybalt/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

gTybalt is a free computer algebra system. It is distributed under the terms
and conditions of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

Main Features :

    * Object Oriented: gTybalt allows symbolic calculations within the C++
programming language.
    * Efficiency for large scale problems: Solutions developed with gTybalt
can be compiled with a C++ compiler and executed independently of gTybalt.
This is particular important for computer-extensive problems and a major
weakness of commercial computer algebra systems.
    * Short development cycle: gTybalt can interpret C++ and execute C++
scripts. Solutions can be developed quickly for small-scale problems, either
interactively or through scripts, and once debugged, the solutions can be
compiled and scaled up to large-scale problems.
    * High quality output: Mathematical formulae are visualized using TeX
fonts and can easily be converted to LaTeX on a what-you-see-is-what-you-get
basis. 

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I am planning to package this myself, but I won't have time until mid to
late summer (after my thesis is finished).  So if anyone else wants to grab
it in the meantime, they are welcome to.

The biggest problem is that gTybalt currently depends upon Root, which
is not DFSG-free and has some legal issues, for graphing functionality.
There is apparently movement to fix the Root issues by making it DFSG-free:
	http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01166.html
If that doesn't come to anything, gTybalt's upstream intends to rework
the program to use gnuplot or some other freely licensed grapher instead.

gTybalt also depends upon a few other pieces of open-source code (cint,
nestedsums, NTL) that aren't currently packaged for Debian.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
GPG public key ID: 4F83C751                 Princeton, NJ 08544

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Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

reopen 291432
thanks bts

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
291432@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.

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