On Feb 18, 1:37 pm, D Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce that OpenAxiom-1.1.0 has been released on > > February 14, 2008. > > Congratulations. > > I just installed Fricas a week ago... Is there a document > highlighting the differences between Axiom/Fricas/OpenAxiom for those > of us "not in the loop"? > > Thanks, > Daniel
Daniel, The <a href="http://axiom.axiom-developer.org";>Axiom</a> release information is on the <a href="http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/ releasenotes.html"> release notes page</a>. The last release was January 25, 2008. There have been two major concentrations of effort in this release. The first concentration is on the new Firefox Hyperdoc and the second concentration is the verification of Axiom against published standards. The orignial X11 Hyperdoc has traditionally been a major porting problem and, although it was designed to be extended by users, it never lived up to that promise due to the non-standard page language. The new firefox browser-based hyperdoc uses standard html and AJAX. This makes it portable, standard, and makes it possible to add new pages. Axiom has been extended to output mathML to the web pages for cleaner display. The new firefox browser has additional new pages including cryptographic course notes by Arthur Ralfs. Axiom strives to be correct and an effort has been ongoing called the Computer Algebra Test Suite (CATS) which shows its first fruits in this release. Some existing functions have been verified against published results and new functions (e.g. the Exponential Integral) have been implemented and verified against published results. Since all of the files are literate programs you can find the references in the bibliography sections of the program files. Additional regression test files have been added using the new regression test mechanism. As far as I'm aware there is no "PanAxiom" document that highlights the differences. Where the systems diverge is based on the underlying philosophy of the PanAxiom versions. The bulk of the changes for Axiom have been in the area of documentation (internal and external) and verification. Future changes are certain to continue this trend as it speaks directly to the underlying philosophy of making Axiom literate (in the sense of Knuth). Tim Daly _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
