From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Gough To: gsl-announce@sources.redhat.com Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.9 is released - First Beta Test Release Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 14:51:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00002.html Dear GSL enthusiasts, I have just placed a new release snapshot of GSL (0.9) up for anonymous ftp access. This is the first beta-test release, after eight development releases. We will now be working towards a stable and fully-tested 1.0 release. We would like people to try out the code and examine the results for errors. Additions to the existing test-suite are especially welcome. The project home page is at http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/ and the source code is at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gsl/ which should soon also be available at the mirror sites. Installation: GSL uses the standard GNU installation procedure. The release tarball (gsl-0.9.tar.gz) comes with an INSTALL file. There is a zip file (gsl-0_9.zip) which includes project files for compiling GSL with Microsoft Visual C++ (see the file msvc/README.txt for details). Packaging: There is an RPM file for gsl-0.9 on the ftp site. Debian also provides GSL packages. Documentation: GSL has an extensive 400 page texinfo manual. The info files are installed in the usual way. The ftp site has the reference manual in postscript format, and the web site has the reference manual in HTML format. Here are the recent entries in the NEWS file. * What is new in gsl-0.9: ** There is a new system of vector and matrix views. Any code using vector and matrix views will need to be updated. ** The order of arguments of the view functions involving strides have been changed to be consistent with the rest of the library. ** The ode solvers have been reorganized. ** There are new eigensystem routines for real symmetric and complex hermitian matrices. ** The linear algebra directory now includes functions for computing symmetric tridiagonal decompositions and bidiagonal decompositions. ** The svd routines now include the Golub-Reinsch and Modified Golub-Reinsch algorithms in addition to the Jacobi algorithm. ** The interpolation directory has been reorganized and a higher-level "spline" interface has been added which simplifies the handling of interpolation arguments. ** IEEE support is now available on OpenBSD.