#6699: [with new spkg and patch; needs review] Update to Maxima 5.19.1
(particularly important for Solaris support).
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.1.2
Component: packages | Keywords: maxima
Reviewer: Adam Webb | Author: David Kirkby, Alex Ghitza
Merged: |
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Changes (by awebb):
* reviewer: => Adam Webb
Comment:
Not to be pedantic but it would be good to add the usual stuff to the
SPKG.txt file to make it more like other packages. I don't know if anyone
would like to put their name in for the package maintainer.
{{{
== Description ==
Maxima is a symbolic computation program. It is full featured,
doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational
functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a
symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is
based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's. It is
quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks.
It comes with hundreds of self tests.
Website: http://maxima.sourceforge.net
== License ==
* Maxima is distributed under the GNU General Public License, with some
export restrictions from the U.S. Department of Energy. See the file
COPYING.
== SPKG Maintainers ==
* ?
== Upstream Contact ==
* the Maxima mailing list - see
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html
}}}
The patch seems quite reasonable to me. Most of it seems to be due to
improvements in maxima. Changing parg back to carg will likely have to be
looked at in a future update but I think is appropriate at this time. I
tested the package on 32 and 64 bit linux and it worked well. I ran 'make
testlong' and everything passed. I give it a positive review. Has this
been tested on Solaris?
Adam
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