Fwd: First Announcement Of KMathCenter (fwd)

["Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de>]

Hi,

fromr kde-devel:

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Subject: First Announcement Of KMathCenter
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:18:33 +0200
From: Christian Parpart <cparpart@surakware.net>
To: kde-devel@kde.org
Cc: kde-edu-devel@kde.org

Hi all,

KMathCenter is a math science application wich intents to go
into the kde-edu package set.

The current features of KMathCenter are:
	* symbolic derivations
	* symbolic expression simplifications
	* string based expression calculation.
	* analytic function plotter

The current features goals are as follows:
	* symbolic expression integration
	* symbolic expression expanding
   	* everything else you need to compute a complete curve
	  discussion (I unfortunately can't say these things in
	  english)
	* scripting system for advanced mathematical algorithms

KMathCenter has also some requirements:
	* KDE 3 (of course :o)
	* OpenGL (at least MesaGL, software driven - www.mesa3d.org)
	  (you'll also need its developer include headers gl.h and glu.h)
	* libmath++ (is bundled into the package)
	* ISO/ANSI C++ compliant compiler
	  (that's mostly gcc3, for gcc2 exists a source level fallback,
	  so it'll work there too)

Now the time has come where some people was already waiting for.
I bundled my backend library with the frontend and made it ready
for an initial release to be tested by other developers to get
their oppinion about that project, its requirements(OpenGL!),
some hints and everything else. I encourage you to have a look
into the sources too.

Screenshots of KMathCenter made while coding on it are available
 at: http://www.surakware.net/projects/kmathcenter/shots.xml

Download of that initial package for testing is available at:
http://www.surakware.net/downloads/kmathcenter-testing.tar.gz

You surely have noticed that KMathCenter is using libmath++, it's
developement state till now may be reviewn at:
http://cvs.surakware.net/viewcvs.cgi/libmath++/

I would be really really very happy if you feel free to download
 it, test it, or just look into its sources, _and_ give me feedback
 about before I am going to contribute and commit it to KDE CVS.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks alot,
Christian Parpart
http://www.surakware.net

BTW: Qt's qgl.h also includes GL/glu.h even if it isn't ever
 needed. KMathCenter will never need that header but you need it
 because Qt thinks that it's needed. (That's not good!, since we
 noticed that average Mandrake users doesn't have either OpenGL nor
 its include files, such as the important glu.h for Qt! It's not my
 fault ;)



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