- Make sure PVM_ROOT gets set if not already set. This will let bulk builds
succeed. In non-bulk environments, this should already be set if pvm is
correctly installed.
Many thanks to the authors at Inria who, through their willingness
to accept feedback, have helped me remove 39 patches!
Changes to scilab include (from scilab-2.5/CHANGES):
NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
===================
Global variables have been introduced
New graphic mode has been added to allow scrollbar handling (panner
for X Window and scrollbars for Windows).
GIF export format is now available for Scilab graphic windows.
Keyboard events and window closing within graphical windows can now be
captured.
Scicos graphical user interface has been made more intuitive and
keyboard shortcuts have been added.
Scilab Binary files created by "save" are now system-independent so
they can be exchanged. In particular (compiled macros) *.bin files and
*.cos (scicos diagrams) can be exchanged.
It is now possible to dynamically link C++ procedures with Scilab.
A new data type "mlist" has been added.
A new function "genlib" allows users to compile the .sci files in a
given directory, generate associated library and load it. This
function is particularly useful under windows if VC++ is not
available.
C formatted input output functions (printf, scanf, ..) have been
interfaced to scilab.
OTHERS IMPROVEMENTS
===================
Efficiency has been improved using reference argument passing when
possible instead of value passing.
Hypermatrix opreations have been accelerated.
On X Window systems 3D Athena Widgets are preferably used instead of
standard Athena Widgets for a better look.
The "Matlab 4" to Scilab translator has been completed and considerably
improved.
NEW TOOLBOXES
=============
True integer data types (1,2 and 4 bytes) with associated operations
and some functions acting on them have been added.
A library of procedures has been added to allow the use of Matlab
mex-files under Scilab.
PORTS
=====
Scilab has been successfully compiled with Windows ABSOFT development
environment.
INCOMPATIBILITIES
=================
New Scilab "save"d files cannot be loaded by earlier Scilab versions.
A new function "oldsave" has been added to save in old format.
Scilab help mechanism has changed. The $MANCHAPTERS/Chapter is no more
used, instead a Scilab variable "helps" is used.
- a few patches to correctly work with the new version of PVM
- Add USE_FORTRAN and remove local selection of the fortran compiler
- Change DEPENDS on xless to RUN_DEPENDS (not used for build)
Changes include:
* Important recalculation bugs fixed.
* Major speedup: loading, saving, quitting, filling.
Jody Goldberg killed the list access to column information
and row information increasing speed up to 1000% for some cases.
Loading is faster, quitting is faster, and manipulating the
sheet is faster.
* Save printing information on the workbook (Morten).
* Formatting engine now supports correctly the "h", "m" and
"s" specifiers to specify the padding of the number.
* Formatting engine now supports [h], [m] and [s] variants.
These are used to compute elapsed hours, minutes and
seconds, so you can add the number of hours you have worked
and get a good total.
* Anting for "copy" operations. Now the selection used during
the copy operation is "anted".
* During column/row resizes, we now show the new dimensions
of the column/row (Jody)
* Functions.
* TREND() function fixed to handle its optional arguments;
One dimenssional GROWTH implemented (Jukka)
* User Interface Improvements
* User interface improvements to the dialog boxes from Jon K
Hellan.
* Dialog boxes should all "accept" when OK is pressed, cancel
when ESC is pressed correctly and all should have an initial
focus set (Jon, Jody, me).
* Various dialogs recoded to use glade rather than gtkcauldron
(Jon).
* General fixes:
* Computation fix: There was a bug introduced back when we
improved the speed for the dependency hash tables. This is
now fixed.
* Use a dialog to report problems on font installation, rather
that outputing to stdout.
* Multiple leak fixes, and list use fixes from Morten.
* gnumeric.desktop is now a generated file. For those using
Bonobo, you should get the right desktop installed now.
* Handles failures from gnome-print (Morten).
* Fixes to work around some broken servers (Nick Lamb).
* CORBA-side
* More interfaces and more features added in preparation for
the Graphics component integration.
* Internals
* Scanning selections is now easier, faster and more
consistent thanks to Jody for providing this code.
* Columns/Rows are now segmented arrays.
* Redone the way we include Bonobo objects, this has enabled
us to make Gnumeric embed arbitrarly-shaped components.
is because the g77 compiled code doesn't work properly on several machine
architectures. In particular using g77 on (all 1.4.1 machines):
pmax - can't even compile
sparc - binary sometimes crashes
mac68k - doesn't handle sparc matrices correctly
using f2c fixes all these problems.
Notable changes include:
* Tons of bug fixes.
* Improve selection to correctly handle overlapping ranges.
* Improve XL import of 'escher' stream for pictures and objects.
* Enabled import of XL objects by default.
* Rewrite zoom dialog.
* Major clean up to the documentation of functions.
* Added tons of examples to functions.
* Added ``Delete...'' entry to ``Edit'' menu.
* Implemented PERCENTILE function.
* Fixed PERCENTRANK function.
* New toolbar code.
* Report font type, support for reporting size
* New format apply buttons for money, percent.
* More commands to format/row/col/sheet
* Bumped row limit to 64k
* Support IO on non-mmap-able excel files.
* Totaly re-write libole2's API - its usable now.
* Excel export 'Add-in' functions.
* Excel summary info export.
Changes include:
* Clipboard fixes (Jody).
* Source code has been re-organized, we have split dialogs, functions and
widgets into their own directories.
* Handle selection properly (Jody, various bug fixes fixed with this).
* Print Preview feature (still a bit broken, text is miss-aligned, but I am puzzled,
I do not know what is wrong with it). Consider this an alpha feature.
* New functions from Jukka-Pekka: ACCRINTM, INTRATE, RECEIVED,
PRICEDISC, ISPMT, MIRR, FVSCHEDULE, TBILLEQ, TBILLPRICE,
TBILLYIELD and PRICEMAT().
* Double click on column divisions will auto-adjust columns to the size that best
fits the contents.
* Many fixes to the dialog-solved (Jukka-Pekka)
* Sheet objects now move properly according to the zoom factor (Jody).
* Improved cell color selection dialog.
* Print Setup: Dialog now displays properly the page you are going to print.
Previews margins as well (me). If you have a new libglade (the one that will be
shortly announced), you can get nice accelerator support in the dialog.
* Printing: Fixed a very bad flaw that inhibited proper priting of sheets 2 and on.
* Fixed warnings related to cursor handling.
* Margin display code fixed when zooming (Jody).
* Cut/paste bug fixes to mimic Excel's behaviour here (Jody)
* Danish translation added.
* More memory leak fixes (Morten).
* Updated glade files.
* Internationalization fixes (Karl).
Excel support dept
* Fixed writing of integer values (Jody)
* Vartious bug fixes from Michael Meeks.
* ISMPT argument handling fixed (Jukka).
NEW FEATURES
o new target for R installation testing : make strict-tests.
o symnum(x) now nicely codes logical x.
o convolve() has a new type = c("circular", "open", "filter")
argument allowing more than the only circular convolution.
o par(xpd) now has three settings: FALSE (clip to plot region),
TRUE (clip to figure region), or NA (clip to device region).
o zapsmall(x) works for complex x.
o new global variable R.version.string (for plots & reports).
Deprecated version & Version for new R.version & R.Version.
o R CMD Rd2dvi has builtin "Usage" help and works for multiple files.
Useful for automatic reference manual of a package.
(doc/manual/lib2tex is more efficient for installed packages, however).
BUG FIXES
o power() is now fully implemented and documented.
o A couple of problems with group generic operations.
o A bug which meant that it was not possible to add elements
to zero length lists in the obvious way has been fixed.
x <- list(); x[[1]] <- 10
x <- list(); x[["a"]] <- 11
both now work.
o save.image() ignored dot-names. (esp. .First())
o lab= argument to plot() misinterpreted by axis() via ... passing
o NULL labels in text() caused segfault
o matrix(f,...) with f a factor now coerces to character
o documentation errors for substitute and is.vector, minor fixups for
trig and nlm
o Background colours are set properly on X11 devices with
colortype="pseudo": sometimes they were not allocated separately.
o C() works (again?) for a single argument.
o is.na() didn't work properly for "list" arguments.
o symnum() sometimes failed with arrays of rank >= 3.
o in some cases one could get nonblack color instead of
black on 2nd x11() window.
o influence.measures(.) $ is.influential was wrong on the
cooks.distance.
o printing of complex NaN/Inf was wrong as well.
o printing of complex named vectors had a wrong initial space.
o allow trailing space in character->numeric coercion
o library() gave wrong "masked" warnings in some cases.
o par(xpd) semantics were not compatible with S.
o rect() output was not clipped in PostScript.
o par(pin=c(width, height)) was behaving as par(pin=c(width, width)).
o Non-blank separated data files didn't have their 1st field
handled properly.
o "aux" directory moved to "tools" to avoid difficulties on
Windows.
o structure() clobbered factors with missing levels.
o pmatch() misbehaved on duplicate matches.
o R CMD Rd2dvi <file.Rd> works again.
o logical binops tried to set time series parameters before dimensions.
o upped the BUFSIZE in model.c (NOT proper long-term solution).
o dput(), dump() and deparse() now always use DBL_DIG (=15) digits
for numeric formatting.
o chull() now works for vertical borders, such as in chull(c(1,1,2),3:1).
toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and
inequalities, into the NetBSD packages collection.
Constraints may be either requirements or preferences. Client code
specifies the constraints to be maintained, and the solver updates the
constrained variables to have values that satisfy the constraints.
Version 0.50 of the solving toolkit adds support for a one-way finite
domain subsolver.
Notable changes are:
* Implemented MDETERM and MINVERSE matrix functions.
* Finished the ROMAN function completing the mathematical
functions.
* Implemented DB, DDB, FREQUENCY, QUARTILE, and XNPV functions.
* Fixed DOLLAR, DOLLARDE, DOLLARFR, and PROB functions.
* Added GUI for Summary Info.
* Enabled function wizard.
* Initial stab at Lotus 123: 'wk1', 'wks' import.
* Added GUI for Names.
* Better Excel string importing.
* Fix for padded number insertion ( fixes CSV import )
* Implemented ISREF, INDIRECT improved CELL
* Fixed several database functions.
* Non-relative R1C1 style references.
* Enable Array formulas.
* Add VALUE_BOOLEAN, VALUE_ERROR, and OPER_PERCENT
* Added EOMONTH, WORKDAY, NETWORKDAYS.
* Work on functions : ROW, COLUMN, ISLOGICAL, ISERR, ISBLANK,
DATEVALUE
* Support implict intersection 'feature' of XL for functions,
NOT operators.
* Support Ctrl-Arrow movement & selection. Make moving corner of
selection visible.
* Support F4 switching between absolute and relative addressing
modes
* Reworked internal handling of absolute/relative addressing.
* Fixed cut/copy/paste to relocate relative references to only
when copying not cuting.
* Implemented BESSELI, BESSELK completing the engineering functions.
* Added Moniker support for the Workbooks
* Added a signal for cell_content_changed for the speech support.
* Fixed locale setting and switching for file IO.
* Updated the CORBA interface for setting cell attributes.
* Scrolling sheet tabs.
* Many translations updated, thanks to our translators.
* innumerable minor bugs fixed.
This is from Dan McMahill (mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu) in PR pkg/6034.
scilab is a high level scientific math programming environment with
graphics.
[scilab is HUGE.]
The only major thing I changed was the way of creating the PLIST.
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
