ANNOUNCE: gnumexp 0.1.0

[Gustavo J A M Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt>]

gnumexp-0.1.0 is now available for download at:
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/numexp

What is gnumexp
===============

  Gnumexp is a GNOME frontend to NumExp.
  NumExp is a math/algebra engine and programming language.
  Gnumexp offers the following advantages relative to the console
based numexp-core package:

    - Console:
      o Splitting of input and output widgets;
      o Single-line or multi-line input editing, with
        syntax-highlighting and automatic completion;
      o Side pane with definitions tree display;
      o Built-in help system, with a MathML renderer;

    - Plot window:
      o Ability to plot arbitrary functions, with anti-aliased rendering.

  Developers will also find (or not) the following appealing:

    - CORBA based acess to the Numexp kernel;
    - Component based architecture: Console and XYGraph are separate
      bonobo controls;
    - XYGraph control mostly written in python;

  This is the first public release of the package. Be warned. Many
features are missing, and there are probably still too many
bugs. Specifically, the Plot component may not work at all on some
systems.  However, we would be interested to get some feedback about
it, so that we can correct the course of development as necessary.

History
=======

  In the beginning, there was NumExp. It was a math program with GTK+
interface. It used to be very monolithic, and based on GNOME 1.x platform.

  Sometime after GTK+ 1.3 began development, the NumExp team decided
to split the frontend and backend and, at the same time, move GNOME
2.0 platform, very much under development at the time.

  The math engine and parser formed the numexp-core package. There was
module support added to the 'kernel'. Most functions were incorporated
into modules.

  A bonobo server was created, opening up the possibility of several
different clients, or front-ends. At this point, gnumexp development
started, right after a console-based corba client was created in the
numexp-core package.

Homepage
========

  Don't forget to visit the project's homepage at http://numexp.sf.net.


-- 
Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>