CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/mathomatic

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   asau
Date:           Mon Aug 30 02:48:41 UTC 2010

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/math/mathomatic: Makefile PLIST distinfo
        pkgsrc/math/mathomatic/patches: patch-aa

Log Message:
Update to Mathomatic 15.2.0

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.2.0 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

All makefiles were improved.  Library test/example program is renamed to 
"testmain".

Package maintainers please take note: support for the DESTDIR environment 
variable was
added to the makefiles; for proper operation when packaging version 15.2.1 or 
higher,
please remove any patches for missing DESTDIR support.
m4 Mathomatic should work now when included in the Mathomatic package (make 
m4install).
Thank you for packaging Mathomatic!  If I did anything wrong, please let me 
know.

8/26/10 - Added the -e option, which processes mathematical expressions and 
Mathomatic commands
          instead of input files on the shell command line.  For example, 
entering
          "mathomatic -eq 2+3" gives "answer = 5".  This functionality has been 
requested
          many times by Mathomatic command line users.  A complete example:

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.6 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

Minor improvements were made to the user documentation.

8/22/10 - Removed "Complex number roots approximated" warning message, since 
this happens often.

          Capitalized E, I, PI, and Pi are now accepted as the universal 
constants e, i, and pi,
          without needing to enter "set no case".  This allows Mathomatic to 
easily
          accept Mathematica style expression input.

          m4 Mathomatic now additionally accepts Mathematica style capitalized 
function input.
          matho and rmath now display elapsed, CPU, and system times in seconds 
upon exit.

8/23/10 - Fixed #equation-number entry at the main prompt to always work and 
allow an expression
          or equation following on the same line to be entered at that equation 
space.
          For example: "#10 y=1/x" will work now;
          previously only worked if equation space number 10 was previously 
allocated and used.
          The way it works is: all equation spaces up to and including number 
10 are allocated,
          if not already allocated, upon entry of "#10".
          Equations spaces are allocated with the memory allocator malloc(3).

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.5 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

7/26/10 - Disabled ncurses call for auto-color detection when CYGWIN is defined 
while
          compiling the source code, due to a reported problem of readline 
failing with
          ncurses in Cygwin.

7/28/10 - Disabled readline history save file for the Cygwin port,
          because it is a filename that starts with a period.

7/31/10 - Added "set fractions_display" option, to allow disabling the 
automatic conversion of
          fractions like .5 to 1/2 for display.
          Developer requested and useful in the symbolic math library,
          when numerical fraction output isn't wanted.

8/01/10 - Fixed a memory leak when ignoring the output string in the symbolic 
math library.

8/04/10 - Preserve overflowed powers like 2^2222 rather than aborting with an 
error message.
          Allow simplification of math like 2*2^2222 and 2/2^2222.

8/08/10 - matho-primes runs twice as fast with the -ffast-math gcc compilation 
option,
          which is now enabled by default.  Don't try -ffast-math with the main 
Mathomatic
          program though, because then Mathomatic won't work properly.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.4 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

Many minor tweaks and improvements.

7/03/10 - Makefiles and compile scripts were corrected and enhanced
          per http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/

7/06/10 - Changed all "#if true" and "#if false" conditional commenting to "#if 
1" and "#if 0"
          in the C source code, thanks to Min Sik Kim of NetBSD pkgsrc.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.3 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

All of the Unix man pages and user manuals for Mathomatic were fixed.

The compare and "solve verify" commands now simplify more thoroughly with 
"repeat simplify"
for better expression equality determination.

6/17/10 - Greatly improved file operation error reporting by using the 
perror(3) function.

6/18/10 - Fixed categories in "icons/mathomatic.desktop";
          Mathomatic now goes under valid categories, mainly Education.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.2 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

6/6/10 - I made mistakes in the improvement to the simplify command of version 
15.1.2,
         the original working simplify logic of version 15.1.1 is now restored, 
sorry.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.1 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

A general cleanup was done.
A small improvement was made to the final result of the simplify and fraction 
commands.
Showing intermediate results in the calculate, sum, and product commands is now 
done with "set debug 1".

5/28/10 - Added "tests/collatz.in", the Collatz conjecture as an automatically 
computable equation.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.1.0 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

Code and documentation cleanup.

5/21/10 - Added "primes/matho-sum", a utility that sums its command line 
arguments or standard input.
          Use "matho-primes 0 2000000 | matho-sum" to find the sum of all 
primes less than 2,000,000.
          Solves Project Euler problem #10: 
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=10

5/23/10 - Primes (') are allowed in variable names now, if not using the 
symbolic math library, so that the
          derivative, integrate, and nintegrate commands can change the 
dependent variable to y', y'', etc.
          This can be turned on in the symbolic math library by the command 
"set special_variable_characters='".

          Non-alphanumeric characters in variable names are now converted to 
underline characters (_)
          when exporting to a programming language or to a different program.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.8 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

5/10/10 - Added "help constants" command.

5/11/10 - Integer variables are now specified by using a variable name that 
starts with "integer",
          like "integer1", "integer_x", etc.  Currently only the modulus 
operator "%" checks
          for integer variables, to help with simplification.

5/12/10 - Corrected the output string type of the symbolic math library API.  
It was erroneously declared
          as type "const", possibly causing a memory leak.

5/13/10 - Moved and adapted "makefile.lib" to "lib/makefile", so the symbolic 
math library build is isolated.
          Previously "make clean" was required between different builds.  All 
makefiles require GNU make now.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.7 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

4/26/10 - Allow "make pdf" to generate PDF documentation from the HTML 
documentation with htmldoc.
          Please read the comments in the makefile for all available options.

4/29/10 - For every makefile, CFLAGS has been modified to include OPTFLAGS as 
required by the Fedora Linux
          build system, and OPTFLAGS defaults to the optional gcc specific 
flags like optimization.

          In the symbolic math library, made available the equation number of 
the result of calling the API,
          if also stored in an equation space.  The result equation number is 
stored in the global "result_en".
          Useful if you want to know where the result was stored, to act on it 
with further commands.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.6 TO BRING IT UP TO THE NEXT VERSION:

Corrections and improvements to the documentation were made.

4/3/10 - Vastly improved the "factor number" user interface, now factors 
integer expressions like 2^32-1.
         "factor number" is disabled in library mode.

4/13/10 - The real and imaginary commands no longer fail when the expression is 
not complex,
          just a warning is given.

4/14/10 - Changed normal display of "-1*" to "-", for prettier 2D expression 
output,
          so things like "-a" display properly, not as "-1*a".

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.5:

1/28/10 - Added a Python utility called "primorial" to the Prime Number Tools 
install
          that multiplies together the results of matho-primes, displaying the 
primorials
          of the integers given on the command line.

3/18/10 - Changed author email address to "gesslein%linux.com@localhost".

3/23/10 - Catch SIGHUP and SIGTERM signals for proper termination of the 
Mathomatic program;
          readline was messing up when Mathomatic was terminated by closing the 
shell window.
          The plot command now always plots expressions with grid marks 
displayed for reference.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.4:

1/21/10 - In the makefile, changed the HTML man page generator back to rman 
because
          groff HTML output looks really bad and rman allows linking to other 
man pages.
          groff is no longer used.

1/24/10 - Fixed "make m4install", the installed rmath and matho programs 
weren't working.

1/27/10 - Added GNU LGPL license notices to every C source file with a 
copyright notice,
          for proper protections.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.3:

1/9/10 - Fixed a problem only in the version 15.0.3 makefile, where it didn't 
respect
         the CC environment variable set by the user, instead it always used 
"gcc"
         as the C compiler.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.2:

12/27/09 - Moved get_screen_size() from main.c to am.c because it is used in 
the library when
           compile-time options UNIX or CYGWIN are defined.
           Thanks to Cygwin port maintainer Reini Urban for noticing and fixing 
this problem.
           Defining UNIX or CYGWIN in library mode is not recommended.

12/31/09 - Added code to allow any command to be preceded by "repeat", which 
sets the
           repeat flag for the following command.  Most commands ignore the 
repeat flag.

1/1/10 - Ported divide and roots commands to be repeatable.  Also repeatable 
are the
         calculate and eliminate commands.

1/2/10 - Allow Taylor series computation even if the specified differentiation 
variable
         is not found in the expression, giving a warning.
         Ported simplify command to be a repeatable full simplify; that is, 
typing
         "repeat simplify" repeatedly runs the simplify command until the 
result stabilizes
         to the smallest size expression.

1/7/10 - Thanks to pretty C code submitted by Simon Geard,
         the code and variables commands have been made much more readable.

1/8/10 - Made Mathomatic easier to compile under Solaris, thanks to Michael 
Pogue of Sun.
         Fixed failure to compile under BSD Unix when compiling with readline 
support.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.1:

12/19/09 - The last few versions fix the ugliness caused by the GCD factoring 
change made on 6/22/09.
           Today's change factors out the numerical GCD of rational 
coefficients as needed to simplify.
           Most simplification results should be beautiful and the simplest 
possible again now,
           without the misleading observed magnitude caused by always factoring 
out the GCD,
           which was why the change of 6/22/09 was made.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 15.0.0:

12/12/09 - Fixed a problem with the -q (quiet mode) option being ignored if the 
session options
           were ever saved with the "set save" command.

12/13/09 - Added code to allow Mathomatic output to be redirected by default.
           Fixed the derivative command to be successful even when the result 
is 0,
           when compiled as a library.

12/14/09 - Added ability to log symbolic math library results, and made command 
behavior
           more consistent in the library by always returning the final result 
string.

12/16/09 - The factor command now factors more by factoring out the GCD of 
rational coefficients.

CHANGES MADE TO MATHOMATIC 14.6.3 TO BRING IT UP TO 15.0.0:

Cleanup and more bug fixes.

11/26/09 - Added detection of the terminal's ANSI color availability, when 
readline is enabled.

11/28/09 - Added detection of divide by zero and NaN when using the "solve 
verify" command,
           for more correct results.
           Solving now factors out the GCD of rational coefficients, for 
improved results.
           The fixes today are from errors solving equations like (2*x/(x - 3)) 
+ 3 = 6/(x - 3)

11/29/09 - Disallow the variable named "nan".  NaN cannot be directly entered 
into Mathomatic.

11/30/09 - Added shell scripts "t" and "tests/t" to easily test Mathomatic by 
typing "./t".

12/2/09 - The fraction command now factors out the GCD of rational coefficients 
like the
          solve command does, so that coefficients in algebraic fractions 
become integers.
          The GCD verifying routine was perfected by making it very strict, 
like it should be.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.91 -r1.92 pkgsrc/math/mathomatic/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/math/mathomatic/PLIST
cvs rdiff -u -r1.80 -r1.81 pkgsrc/math/mathomatic/distinfo
cvs rdiff -u -r1.22 -r1.23 pkgsrc/math/mathomatic/patches/patch-aa

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