Re: symbolic 2.0.0 released

[Carnë Draug]

Hi Constantine

I am forwarding your email to the octave help mailing list.

Carnë

On 6 February 2015 at 11:43, Constantine Frangos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear Carne Draug,
>
> It was interesting to hear about the new symbolic package for Octave.
> I am currently using Octave 3.2, running under debian linux squeeze
> version 6.0.4.
>
> Any assistance with the following would be appreciated:
>
> (1) I have already installed an older version of the symbolic package
> using the debian squeeze synaptic package manager.
>
> However, this symbolic package does not seem to be practically usable.
> Part of the difficulty is that I do not have the manual for this
> symbolic package.
>
> How can I uninstall the older symbolic package and install the newest
> symbolic package ?
>
> (2) Is there a pdf manual for the newest symbolic package ?
>
> (3) Does the latest symbolic package for Octave approximately
> match most of the commands of the current/previous Matlab symbolic
> toolbox ?
>
> Thanks very much.
> Kind regards,
> Constantine Frangos.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carnë Draug" <address@hidden>
> To: "octave-maintainers" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 10:16:58 PM
> Subject: symbolic 2.0.0 released
>
> Hi everyone
>
> a new release of the symbolic package [1] is out, version 2.0.0, by Colin B.
> Macdonald.  A summary of important user-visible changes is also available
> online [2].
>
> The symbolic package was unmaintained for a very long time.  Recently, the
> octsympy package was created which uses SymPy internally.  The octsympy
> package now completely replaces the Octave Forge symbolic package.
>
> Enjoy Octave responsibly,
> Carnë
>
> [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/
> [2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/symbolic/NEWS.html
>
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