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[Axiom-developer] Axiom March 2008 Release
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daly |
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[Axiom-developer] Axiom March 2008 Release |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:39:03 -0600 |
Axiom March 2008 Release is up. You can get it at
github.com (git)
git-clone git://github.com/daly/axiom.git
sourceforge.net (cvs)
cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/axiom co -P axiom
sourceforge.net (svn)
svn co https://axiom.svn.sf.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk/axiom axiom
axiom-developer.org (arch)
tla get axiom--main--1
The binary downloads will soon be available at:
<http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html>
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Summary: March 2008 release
Axiom is now available at github, a git-based code repository.
This site will have the Gold version of Axiom, that is, only
code that changes at each two-month release. To get a clone type:
git-clone git://github.com/daly/axiom.git
USER VISIBLE CHANGES
One primary focus of this release has been extending the Firefox
toward being a full Axiom user interface (as opposed to a simple
hyperdoc replacement). The Firefox console page has new, AJAX
based, dropdown menus which are planned to be dynamically updated
to display available functions for the last computed type. This
should make it much easier to find the applicable functions by
category and type. They are currently static in this release.
* Firefox Pages
o Dropdown menus were added to the Axiom console page
o More hyperdoc pages were translated to Firefox/html
o Bitmaps and graphics are now properly handled in pages
o A minor mathml fix was applied (for invisible times)
* Refcard
o An Axiom reference card of Axiom commands was created (src/doc/refcard)
* Examples
o It is often difficult to figure the exact arguments required to call
any given function in Axiom. The )display operation command used to
only show the available modemaps. This command has now been changed.
)display operation foo
now shows examples of function calls for foo.
* Help
o The plot routines have new help files and documentation
PORTING
o Axiom was ported to MAC-OSX
o The binary download page now has binaries for
Ubuntu, OpenSUsE, Redhat9, Redhat72, Debian, MACOSX at
<http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html>
o Binaries for the this release will be available shortly.
INTERNALS
* Compiler changes
o hashtables were used to speed up compiles
* Algebra changes
o There are new special functions, Ei,En,Ei1,Ei2,Ei3,Ei4,Ei5,Ei6
o The prime and BasicSieve functions are faster
o The Brent/Pollard algorithm was documented
o Bad gcd reductions are checked (heugcd regression test file added)
o The plot routines have new help files and documentation
* Makefile changes
o Bi-capital SVN copies are no longer made
* Interpreter changes
o Book Volume 5 has new documentation on the display function
o The display function code has been translated and moved to book volume 5
o PI has a higher internal precision
o Mappings are now properly hashed for Aldor
CATS (Computer Algebra Test Suite)
o The differential equations regression tests are being checked against
Mathematica, Maple, and Maxima. This has happended for the kamke2.input
regression test file and will happen for the other regression tests.
o Complex Gamma, logGamma, and log(Gamma) have additional tests and
documentation.
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