Summary: November 2009 release

The major changes are:
   A new )describe command, boot language removal, and more motion
   toward a fully literate system.

The )describe command was added.

   The )describe function was added to Volume 5 (Interpreter)
   The )describe function was documented in Volume 2 (Users Guide)
   The Description field for the Categories, Domains, and Packages 
   were cleanup up and reformatted in Volumes 10.2 (Categories)
   10.3 (Domains) and 10.4 (Packages)
 

Boot Language removal

    All of the boot-converted lisp files were reformatted from their 
    compiler generated output. These files are being merged into
    Volume 5 (Interpreter) and Volume 9 (Compiler) as appropriate.
    This work will continue for the next few releases.

    All or portions of the following files were merged into 
    Volume 5 (Interpreter):
      astr, cstream.lisp, dq, incl, int-top, i-syscmd, msg, nci,
      obey, osyscmd, parini, patches, pile, scan

    The src/boot subdirectory is gone, including the files:
      Makefile, boot-proclaims, boothdr, bootload, btincl2, btpile2,
      btscan2, ccl-bootsys, ccl-depsys.lsp, exports.lisp, npextras, ptyout,
      tyextra, typars, typrops, tytree1, sys-pkg, vmlisp, ptrees, wi2

    The bootsys image is no longer part of the build process


Patch ports from Fricas and Open-Axiom

    The Tuples patch was picked up and applied.

    The SXHASH function is the hash default in SetCategory

    The function ListOfTerms was renamed to listOfTerms


Input file changes

    New input files have been added to show how to compute
    results using Axiom or to create regression tests for fixes:
      complexfactor, rubey, zimmbron, branchcut, cachedf, finitegraph,
      newtonlisp, nonlinhomodiffeq, distexpr, numericgamma, donsimple
      solveperf, tuplebug, unit-macro, testprob, unittest2

    lexp was removed and moved to the LEXP algebra file

    dop and gstbl had minor fixes

New Help files and Function examples were added

    There are new help files:
      describe, AlgebraicallyClosedField, RationalFunctionSum,
      RadicalSolvePackage, PartialFractionPackage, Product,
      OrderedFreeMonoid

Website update:

  The developer.html page was rewritten. An old Scratchpad group
  photo was added to the site.

  Work continues on re-hosting the axiom-developer.org domain.

  We now own axiom-developer.com and axiom-developer.net which will
  be retargetted to the new host as soon as it is available

Interpreter changes:

    Axiom will sit in a single package in the near future.
    The VMLISP package was partially removed from the system.
    Work continues on this path.

    The util.ht file is created earlier in the parallel build
    so there are fewer compiler messages about documentation.

Research:
 
    A Cohen algebra domain is being developed to enable symbolic
    manipulation of expressions with explanations and controlled
    simplification.