• Changes for PerlMaple 0.07 (rev 51) - Nov 20, 2009
  • applied the POD patch from Frank Wiegand.
• Changes for PerlMaple 0.06 (rev 48) - May 2, 2006

== Core Enhancements

• made warning messages issued by the Maple kernel controllable (MAPLE_TEXT_WARNING no long directly goes to stderr, but stores in a buffer controlled by PrintError)
  • Changes for PerlMaple 0.05 (rev 46) - Feb 18, 2006

== Documents

• confirmed that PerlMaple works both with Maple 9.02 and 10.00
• added a note to both README and PerlMaple.pm's POD for this
• used Kwid to reformat this file (Changes). Kwid++
• added some new TODOs to POD
  • Changes for PerlMaple 0.04 (rev 43) - Feb 6, 2006

== Core Enhancements

• rewrote PerlMaple::Expression's constructor and made its instances rather "lazy". That is to say, PerlMaple::Expression now won't construct a whole AST at startup time. It only evaluate a specific part of the AST on the user's actual demand. This is really a big win on performance. Yay!
• added internal methods `init_type' and `init_ops' to PerlMaple::Expression. They're only called on demand of the users.
• tweaked the tests a bit to remain to pass

== Documents

• updated the POD to reflect recent changes in core
• added more words for the Maplesoft and its Maple product in the POD (to help Google find this stuff)
• moved the VERSION section of the POD in PerlMaple.pm to the front of the bloated SYNOPSIS section
• replaced the ugly `-E<gt>error' and things like that with more elegant `C<error>' or so.
  • Changes for PerlMaple 0.03 (rev 38) - Feb 5, 2006

== Core Enhancements

• changed the PerlMaple error message from "PerlMaple error: XXX" to "PerlMaple: XXX". Indeed "errors" always frighten poeple arway.
• added undocumented and also preliminary support for the LogCmd attribute
• when Maple returns outputs of the type MAPLE_TEXT_WARNING, PerlMaple will warn it out instead of return the string as a return value to the Perl programmer. (I'm sure there must be better solutions to this kind of things. :=))
• fixed a bug concerning zero number of ops
• added AUTOLOAD mechanism to PerlMaple::Expression so it now autoloads Maple functions just as PerrlMaple does, which is a big win in syntax! Added POD docs and some tests for this new feature.
• fixed a bug which manifest itself when a PerlMaple::Expression object is contructed using a Maple assignment statement (say, a command containing ":=").
• added more info (the Maple command given) to the carp/croak messages issued by PerlMaple. It really eases debugging process.
• improved the operator overloading mechanism so that PerlMaple::Expression objects behave like simple Perl scalar variables. Yeah, simplicity is the key, no extra magic is really needed.

== Documents

• updated my email address in POD to agentzh@gmail.com
• added new TODO on facilities that imports complex perl data structure to Maple land
• added one more interesting example to PerlMaple's SYNOPSIS to demonstrate the elegant AUTOLOAD feature of PerlMaple::Expression.
• added BUGS sections to both PerlMaple and PerlMaple::Expression's POD, mostly about the sharing of Maple evaluation contexts among PerlMaple objects.
• updated the outdated "Inline::C" comment to "XS".
• fixed the indented L<> linking in POD.
• added $VERSION to PerlMaple/Expression.pm
• Added TODO about making PerlMaple::Expression objects more "lazy" to PerlMaple's POD.
• Removed duplicate code coverage report from PerlMaple::Expression's POD.
• Confirmed that this lib won't work with Maple 7. Sigh.
  • Changes for PerlMaple 0.02 (rev 11) - Dec 19, 2005

== Core Enhancements

• On the XS side, ignored MAPLE_TEXT_STATUS output so that PerlMaple won't return silly things like "bytes used=1963, alloc=719, time=0.44".
• Added AUTOLOAD mechanism so that any Maple functions or procedures all automagically become the methods of PerlMaple objects;
• Renamed ->eval method to ->eval_cmd so that ->eval is exactly the Maple's counterpart.
• ->eval is not backward-compatible.
• Added optional options PrintError and RaiseError to the constructor
• Added attribute methods PrintError and RaiseError
• Fixed a bug concerning multiple PerlMaple instances creation
• Added corresponding tests.
• Added the PerlMaple::Expression class to represents a Maple expression ASTs.
• PerlMaple::Expression can now build full-featured Perl AST from arbitrary Maple expressions. So you can manipulate Maple expressions via data structures directly, without the burden of parsing Maple code yourself!
• PerlMaple::Expression provides several useful mehods, such as type, expr, and ops.
• Added method to_ast to the PerlMaple class, which is construct a PerlMaple::Expression object from the given Maple expression.
• Added ReturnAST attribute to the PerlMaple class (default off).
• PerlMaple's AUTOLOADed methods (shortcuts for Maple functions) and the eval_cmd method will return a PerlMaple::Expression object automagically if you turn on the ReturnAST attribute.

== Documents

• Added SVN link 'https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/win32maple' to the POD doc.
• Emphasized that Maple's maplec.h and maplec.lib must be in INC and LIB, repectively. Most of the test failure reports are concerning this issue.
• Added many, many POD docs and many, many tests for the vast variety of new features.
• Added code coverage testing results to POD docs. (Thanks to Devel::Cover.)
  • Changes for PerlMaple 0.01 (rev 1) - Nov 15, 2005
• original version; created by h2xs 1.23
• basic functionalities implemented