Just information concerning the new release. No criticism intended:
I downloaded maxima-5.22.0.tar.gz from sourceforge and built RPM files
for my personal repository for PCLinuxOS-2010 which I then installed
using the gcl run-time because it's the fastest for me.
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The About page for the wxmaxima help gives:
wxWidgets: 2.8.10
Unicode support: no
Maxima version: 5.22.0
Lisp: GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
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I ran the testsuite from within wxmaxima-0.8.5 (for which I also built
RPM files) and got the following results:
307/307 tests passed (not counting 5 expected errors)
No unexpected errors found out of 8,488 tests.
real time : 742.850 secs
run-gbc time : 590.170 secs
child run time : 2.790 secs
gbc time : 55.330 secs
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I ran a few test commands in wxmaxima concerning the bug that shows up
for 0^n and got the following:
kill(all);
n:5$
sum(0^i, i, 0, n);
0^0;
0^1;
0^i;
assume (i >= 0);
0^i;
(%o0) done
0^0 has been generated
-- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
0^0 has been generated
-- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
(%o4) 0
(%o5) 0
(%o6) [i>=0]
(%o7) 0
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So it looks like there is a partial fix for the bug because 0^0 produces
an error message but when 0^i or when
assume i >= 0 is given followed by 0^i, the error still shows up. Am I
correct in this assumption?
Thanks,
Paul Bowyer