Bug#819899: RFS: wxmaxima/16.04.0-1

[Gunter Königsmann <gunter@peterpall.de>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wxmaxima"

* Package name    : wxmaxima
  Version         : 16.04.0-1
  Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec <andrejv@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL             : wxmaxima.sourceforge.net
* License         : GPL
  Section         : math

wxMaxima is a quite powerful graphical front-end for maxima, an even
more powerful computer algebra system that is specialized in finding an
equation solving a problem except of a bunch of numbers that does do so.
One simple example would be:

(%i3) solve(a^2+b^2=c^2,a);
(%o3) [a = -sqrt(c^2-b^2),a = sqrt(c^2-b^2)]

The current version of wxMaxima seems not to fix any bugs reported to
debian but closes > 300 bug reports on wxMaxima's bug tracker including
many ways to crash the program and the fact that printing didn't work.
It also provides many new features and perfomance improvements and
automatically repairs broken files wxMaxima 13.04 generated when the
<ESC> key was hit right before saving the file.

A somehow more detailed ChangeLog would be:

  * A TeX-like subscript notation: A_1 is now by default shown as an A with
    an 1 as subscript
  * High-quality icons for high-dpi screens.
  * Some broken .wxmx files generated with wxMaxima 13.04 and older will now
    automatically be repaired
  * Tried to make communication with maxima more stable
  * Debug: A monitor for the xml communication between maxima and wxMaxima
  * Leading White-space in front of a character that has to be escaped in
    XML is no more ignored.
  * jpeg-encoded images are now no more converted to much larger png files
    on saving .wxmx files and on exporting.
  * Images will now actually be converted to the target format.
  * Bumped the minor version of the .wxmx format: Some old versions of
    wxmaxima will replace .jpg files embedded in .wxmx files by a
    placeholder on load
  * Increased both speed and memory-efficiency of image handling
  * Save the zoom factor at exit and reload it on opening a new file
  * An option that makes wxMaxima use user-defined labels instead of %o
where an
    user-defined label exists. Works well together with unchecking the
    "export code cells" config item.
  * A separate text style for user-defined labels.
  * The "evaluate all cells" and "evaluate till here" now start with a fresh
    instance of maxima
  * TeX export now should work with most unicode chars we have ESC sequences
    for.
  * An auto-repair functionality that repairs most .wxmx files wxMaxima
13.04
    was not able to open again.
  * A few new ESC sequences and markdown commands.
  * "#" now is shown as a "not equal" sign as a "not equal" sign already
would
    be interpreted as "#".
  * Teach CCL on Windows how to deal with unicode variable names like
    ü and α. For SBCL the necessary change has been done on the maxima side.
  * Sidebars for symbols
  * Printing text cells now works again
  * The <ESC> key now works as a shortcut that closes the search dialogue.
  * A copy-to-MathML feature
  * Many bug, usability and performance fixes
  * Most importantly: If it is a cursor it now blinks.


Thanks a lot,
and kind regards,

 Gunter.