How to get diff to yield result in terms of original function

> If there were a design notes page of some kind...
> I think someone proposed last month to set up a wiki to 
> handle design feature discussions. I think that's worth 
> consideration. It's easy to set it up at SourceForge; I have 
> done so for another project.

Assuming Jim Amundson agrees (he's the administrator of the project), I
think you should just do it, and report back to us on how it's done for
our edification.

> There are large-scale features that come up from time to time 
> on the mailing list, and when that happens it seems common to 
> rehash the topic, because it's not easy to see what's been 
> discussed before.

Yes.

> "Maxima could use a good representation of the 
> derivative of an arbitrary function". 

Yes.  I have some thoughts about what would be good and bad ways to do
this, but they should probably wait for the Wiki.

Does anyone on this list have experience with Wikis used in this way?
(Or pointers to successful Wikis of this sort?)  The Wikis I've seen are
mostly about documenting an existing body of knowledge.  In this case,
it is a question of documenting discussion and debate.  I am not sure
that Wikis are the ideal way to do this, but it's worth trying,
especially if we can find a successful model.

Also, what do you do if you want to download a snapshot of an entire
Wiki?  Is there anything like a cross between Wiki and CVS?

       -s