Math::Pari 0.91 released

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

(Oups, I discovered that I forget to release the latest version 0.91
:-(.  It should auto-propagate to CPAN in a couple of days, should sit
in
  ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl/modules
in several minutes.)

Math::Pari is a module which make PARI 1.39.4+ builtin into Perl.  The
version 0.91 is available from CPAN.  Those who do not know about
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network may start from

	http://cpan.perl.com
	http://www.perl.com/CPAN

Otherwise, one can give your Perl (version 5.004 or more) command

	perl -MCPAN -e shell

then type 

     reload index

(if you have an older index)

     test Math::Pari

(probably

     install Math::Pari

may install it for you, maybe not, since there is a test in the test
suite which demonstrates bugs).

You may want to 

    install Term::Gnuplot 

first to enable graphic capability in the tests.

The goodies which may be useful for non-Perl context too:

    a) Minor changes gphelp (but one can use chap3);
    b) A bug in Gnuplot output corrected (why Gnuplot capability is
       not mentioned in the announcement, or Henry's message to me
       that it was included is no more correct?);
    c) Script to convert the documentation to POD (thus to manpages,
       html gnuinfo pdf ...);
    d) Additional graphical functions documented;
    e) log2 and exp2 eliminated whatsoever, pseudo-assembler
       substitutions added for i*86;

One

The patches (stripped from the distribution) are available on

    ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/pari

Note also that one can use the POD documentation instead of gphelp:

    pod2man --lax a.pod  | nroff -man |
    perl -p00e "s/\s*$/\n/;if (/^\S/) {$_=''} else {print qq'\n' if $next++}"|
    less -s -+C

(using DOSISH syntax, otherwise exchange "" and '').  This assumes
that a.pod is emitted by chap3_to_pod in the 'keyword-search' regime
(not implemented yet, should marry chap3_to_pod and gphelp).

Enjoy,
Ilya