I placed a _preliminary_ version of orthopoly, a proposed update
to specfun, on
http://www.unk.edu/acad/math/people/willisb/
Either download the archive orthopoly-0.9.tar.gz or view the user
documentation at
http://www.unk.edu/acad/math/people/willisb/orthopoly-doc.html
(1) _Expect_ _bugs_. Orthopoly is a complete rewrite of specfun.
I think I had sufficient reasons for starting over; you all can
judge my sanity.
(2) orthopoly passes essentially the same testing routine as does
specfun. I removed a few tests that were no longer relevant and
I added some new tests.
(3) I've tested orthopoly under Maxima 5.9.0rc3 (Linux cmucl) and
Maxima 5.9.0 (XP GCL 2-5.0).
(4) New features:
(a) display and TeX support,
(b) improved floating point evaluation with an estimate of
the upper bound of error.
Additionally, I made algorithmic improvements. Now most all symbolic and
numerical evaluation is funneled through the 1F1 and 2F1 hypergeometric
functions.
(5) Send me bug reports. When I think orthopoly is fairly well-tested,
I'll change its version identifier to 1.0 and let you all decide what to
do with it.
Yeah! Aren't you glad this isn't another COW (can of worms) missive?
Or at least I hope that it isn't!
Barton