- make sure the path is correctly determined for pvm.
- add a --tag= argument to libtool when building fortran code.
This makes all selftests pass on my alpha.
Main Changes Scilab 2.6 -> 2.7
==============================
THANKS
======
Scilab group wants to thank the increasing number of people who have
contributed to this new version of Scilab, with special mention to
Anders Blomdell, Stephane Mottelet, Dan McMahill
Ton van Overbeek, Bruno Pincon and Enrico Segre.
NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
===================
Slicot based control routines (www.win.tue.nl/wgs/slicot.html)
have been introduced with a special attention
to identification functions, lyapunov, sylvester and riccati equation solvers.
Interface with TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) a high level scientific text editor.
The editor allows you to write structured documents via a wysiwyg interface
including Scilab sessions and results.
An embedded text editor scipad derived from TkNotepad
(www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html) as been developped.
C Code generation from Scicos discrete models
Blocks defining DAE are now usable in Scicos.
Statistic toolbox added (labostat).
A new graphics version based on objects and entities has been developped
(beta version). It allows to edit the properties of graphics
objects. By default, the old graphics version is used. Tu use the new graphics
version see the help of "graphics_entities".
OTHERS IMPROVEMENTS
===================
Linear algebra primitives now based on Lapack instead of Linpack/Eispack.
Basic functions revised (thanks to B Pincon).
stacksize use is no more restricted.
Hypertext, xml based, online help.
Binary Matlab file .mat loader (loadmatfile) added.
Possibility to customize graphics window event handlers (seteventhandler).
edit_graph, a graph editor for Metanet toolbox, written in Scilab, replaces
xmetanet. It works on both Unix and Windows.
INCOMPATIBLITIES
================
It is higly recommended to rebuild user's scilab functions libraries. This
can be done as follow:
predef(0);genlib('mylib','mylib_path',%t)
gschur and gspec functions are now obsolete and replaced by schur and spec.
Geci and the communication library have been removed. Use PVM interface instead.
Metanet graph editor has been rewritten. Use edit_graph instead.
man pages have to be written in HTML or better in XML but chapters
written in the old ascii files are still handled.
Scicos internal data structure have been changed. Automatic translation
is made when old diagrams are loaded.
Serge Steer on comp.soft-sys.scilab
- minor man page fixes
- make the 'whatis' files used for the online help be lined up in columns
which significantly enhances readability
- minor fixes to the Makefile fragment for building scilab shared objects.
bump rev to scilab-2.6nb2
no longer (erroneously) included. This means the pkgsrc Makefile also
no longer needs to delete config.cache as a post-extract step.
Fixes PR pkg/14679 from Rafal Boni by applying his patch.
checked correctly. Can cause scilab to crash instead of printing a warning.
Patch came from Giuseppe Allodi <Giuseppe.Allodi@fis.unipr.it>
posted to comp.soft-sys.math.scilab.
bump to 2.6nb1.
