Announcing Maxima 5.20
Maxima is a GPL'd branch of Macsyma, the venerable symbolic
computation system. Maxima 5.20 is a bug fix and feature
enhancement release. The current version is 5.20.1.
Maxima has functions to work with polynomials, matrices, finite sets,
integrals, derivatives and differential equations, linear algebra,
plotting, floating point and arbitrary-precision arithmetic, etc.
Maxima can run on MS Windows and various flavors of Unix,
including MacOS X.
There is a precompiled executable installer for Windows,
RPM's for Linux, and source code tar.gz.
Maxima is implemented in Common Lisp; several Lisps can compile
and run Maxima, including CMUCL, SBCL, Clisp, GCL, and ECL.
The Maxima project welcomes new participants. You can contribute
in several ways: reporting bugs, fixing bugs, writing new add-on
packages, revising core functions, user interfaces, documentation, ....
Why not see what's happening on the mailing list and consider how
you might contribute to the project.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the 5.20 release.
Special thanks to Dieter Kaiser for his extensive, excellent
contributions on a variety of topics.
Regards,
Robert Dodier
Maxima developer and 5.20 release manager
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima
Documentation:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
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Ports page:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/maxima/index.php?title=Maxima_ports
Project home page:
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Change log:
http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/ChangeLog-5.20
On Dec 20, 4:16 pm, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please distribute this message as you see fit.
>
> Announcing Maxima 5.20
>
> Maxima is a GPL'd branch of Macsyma, the venerable symbolic
> computation system. Maxima 5.20 is a bug fix and feature
> enhancement release. The current version is 5.20.1.
We should make a new spkg for this (assuming the ECL build stuff
mentioned on the Maxima list is now worked out). This is ticket #
7745.
- kcrisman
What ECL build stuff are you alluding to?
William
cch
On Dec 21, 8:34 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe the regressions in 9.12.2? But they were solved with the last
patch release
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/29321/match=ecl
Should I produce another patch for the "stat"-ing of files or can that
wait for January?
Yes, nothing serious, I just wasn't sure if that had been resolved,
though I assumed it had been (hence the parentheses). Sorry if it
sounded like anything wacky was implied.
- kcrisman
Isn't clisp the slowest option?
Robert
>
> cch
Perhaps, but I think the poster was just confirming it worked with
that Lisp; Sage is (afaik) committed to using ECL for other reasons,
and Juanjo is committed (as far as I can tell from the lists) to
making sure it works great for Maxima in Sage as well - and we are
grateful for that!
- kcrisman