[Axiom-developer] project update

[daly]

Progress has been made on many fronts in the last week.

Most of the time was spent on the Interpreter (volume 5). The most
significant long term change is adding signatures to the lisp code and
a separate Signatures chapter which contains backlinks to the
functions. A complete collection of all missing references now exists
so the next round of work can add the missing code.

I rebuilt my hardware and now have a new Jenkins dedicated disk. I
spent time creating VirtualBox instances of many distros so they can
be used in the automated build.

The other major effort involved starting another computer algebra test
suite (CATS) based on Wester's published test cases. Unlike the other
CATS suites (integration, differential equations, graphics), this one
ranges across many areas of Axiom.

Tim


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Axiom continuous integration
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  * The jenkins server now has private disk space.
  * Built individual virtualbox images for many distros.

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Axiom Burge recursive parser
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  * Got a copy of Recursive Programming Techniques by Burge

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Axiom Charybdis
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  * Read the Charybdis paper

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Axiom src/interp cleanup
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  * Started rewrite into standard common lisp syntax (from machine syntax)
  * Removed |function| macro globally.

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Axiom interpreter merge
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  * Complete review of Volume 5, noting all of the missing references. 
  * Started adding missing references.

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Axiom CATS expansion
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  * Adding Wester test suite as published at
    http://math.unm.edu/~wester/cas_review.html

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Axiom buglist
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  * Add )savesystem restore failure to buglist

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Axiom books
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  * treeshake missing references
  * added a Signatures chapter to the Axiom Interpreter volume
  * added signatures of some lisp functions
  * clean up the defvar syntax

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Axiom interpreter
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  * )quit now defaults to immediate quit