Package: sponsorship-requests
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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wxmaxima"
* Package name : wxmaxima
Version : 15.04.0-1
Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec
* URL : http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/
* License : GPL-2+
Section : math
It builds those binary packages:
wxmaxima - GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima
More detailed information about the package:
What is wxMaxima?
wxMaxima is a powerful graphical user interface for maxima, a program
that is specialized in finding symbolic solutions for mathematical
problems (which means it actually tries to find the formula that solves
a problem, not the number the formula would result in).
A simple example what it can do would be:
-> a^2+b^2=c^2;
-> solve(%,c);
[c=-sqrt(b^2+a^2),c=sqrt(b^2+a^2)]
But it can find a formula that solves many types of differential
equations, too:
-> dgl:diff(diff(x(t),t),t)=-x(t);
-> desolve(dgl,x(t));
x(t)=sin(t)*(at('diff(x(t),t,1),t=0))+x(0)*cos(t)
The actual output on the screen is much nicer, naturally, since the
equations are displayed in 2D there.
It is to notice, though, that wxMaxima can be used for numerical work,
too: It supports calculating with ordinary floating-point numbers if
one requests this - but it will happily use arbitrary-precision numbers
by default, exact fractions or bigfloat with a user-specified precision
that is only limited by the amount of memory that is available.
Why does the package need to be updated?
The version currently packaged with debian (13.04) is over two years
old. Moreover this old version has many bugs:
- In some locales many keys (for example in germany all hotkeys)
didn't work in 13.04
- In version 13.04 drag-and drops drops about half of the parenthesis
- 13.04 crashes if it has to display sometimes not-too-complicated
equations or if the save button is pressed while the program is
calculating
Also the old version currently packaged with debian still doesn't come
with a manual, has only a limited undo functionality and in many places
is rather slow. A longer list of enhancements can be found at
https://github.com/andrejv/wxmaxima/blob/master/ChangeLog
The package is lintian-free. Currently it is marked as "orphaned". But
I am willing to package new versions and upload them to
mentors.debian.org on a regular basis. This is needed, too, since the
next version, once released, will have a pack of features new, too
including higher processing speed and syntax highlighting.
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/wxmaxima
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:
dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wxmaxima/wxmaxima_15.04.0-1.dsc
More information about hello can be obtained from
http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/
