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[Axiom-developer] Axiom release for November 2009
From: |
Tim Daly |
Subject: |
[Axiom-developer] Axiom release for November 2009 |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:43:22 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
Summary: November 2009 release
The major changes are:
A new )describe command, boot language removal, and more motion
toward a fully literate system.
The )describe command was added.
The )describe function was added to Volume 5 (Interpreter)
The )describe function was documented in Volume 2 (Users Guide)
The Description field for the Categories, Domains, and Packages
were cleanup up and reformatted in Volumes 10.2 (Categories)
10.3 (Domains) and 10.4 (Packages)
Boot Language removal
All of the boot-converted lisp files were reformatted from their
compiler generated output. These files are being merged into
Volume 5 (Interpreter) and Volume 9 (Compiler) as appropriate.
This work will continue for the next few releases.
All or portions of the following files were merged into
Volume 5 (Interpreter):
astr, cstream.lisp, dq, incl, int-top, i-syscmd, msg, nci,
obey, osyscmd, parini, patches, pile, scan
The src/boot subdirectory is gone, including the files:
Makefile, boot-proclaims, boothdr, bootload, btincl2, btpile2,
btscan2, ccl-bootsys, ccl-depsys.lsp, exports.lisp, npextras, ptyout,
tyextra, typars, typrops, tytree1, sys-pkg, vmlisp, ptrees, wi2
The bootsys image is no longer part of the build process
Patch ports from Fricas and Open-Axiom
The Tuples patch was picked up and applied.
The SXHASH function is the hash default in SetCategory
The function ListOfTerms was renamed to listOfTerms
Input file changes
New input files have been added to show how to compute
results using Axiom or to create regression tests for fixes:
complexfactor, rubey, zimmbron, branchcut, cachedf, finitegraph,
newtonlisp, nonlinhomodiffeq, distexpr, numericgamma, donsimple
solveperf, tuplebug, unit-macro, testprob, unittest2
lexp was removed and moved to the LEXP algebra file
dop and gstbl had minor fixes
New Help files and Function examples were added
There are new help files:
describe, AlgebraicallyClosedField, RationalFunctionSum,
RadicalSolvePackage, PartialFractionPackage, Product,
OrderedFreeMonoid
Website update:
The developer.html page was rewritten. An old Scratchpad group
photo was added to the site.
Work continues on re-hosting the axiom-developer.org domain.
We now own axiom-developer.com and axiom-developer.net which will
be retargetted to the new host as soon as it is available
Interpreter changes:
Axiom will sit in a single package in the near future.
The VMLISP package was partially removed from the system.
Work continues on this path.
The util.ht file is created earlier in the parallel build
so there are fewer compiler messages about documentation.
Research:
A Cohen algebra domain is being developed to enable symbolic
manipulation of expressions with explanations and controlled
simplification.
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