When to open the repository (was Re: [Maxima] First set of cleanups from Andreas Eder checked in)
Subject: When to open the repository (was Re: [Maxima] First set of cleanups from Andreas Eder checked in)
From: James Amundson
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:00:32 -0500
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 09:16, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Is the repository open now?
Your timing is excellent. I was just about to bring up this point on the
list. We only have one major obstacle to opening up the repository to
the developers: downcasing the source. Since downcasing doesn't mix well
with other changes, we have to do it all at once. I can either do it
now, then re-open the repository in a few days, or we can open up the
repository now, then have a very brief close in the next few weeks.
If there are developers with changes ready to commit, we should allow
them to do so before the downcasing. On the other hand, the code will be
easier to deal with once it looks a little more uniform.
What say the developers?
> I have a couple of small changes to the
> bessel functions to correct an issue where the bessel functions
> weren't being numerically evaluated, and a minor enhancement to allow
> bessel_j to be computed for negative orders.
>
> There are other numerical evaluation deficiencies there, but I haven't
> fixed those yet.
>
> I'd also like to unify (maybe) the issue of bessel_j and %j in the
> code. I think we agreed that all uses of %j should become bessel_j.
It all sounds good.
--Jim