Internals: Meeting Notes

This page will is edited during the M2internals meetings.

Should you be interested in joining M2internals, a group that works on and meets to discuss M2 development topics like the ones below, please email Anton Leykin.

Topics:

M2internals #1 (May 2020)

• Building Macaulay2 from source
  • Internals: Autotools Build System
  • Internals: CMake Build System
• Components of Macaulay2
  • Safe-C Compiler
  • Internals: the Interpreter
    • Internals: the D language
  • Internals: the Engine
    • adding functions to the engine and interfacing them to the front end
    • Internals: Class Hierarchy in the Engine (rings, module, gbs, resolutions, computations)
    • Internals: Engine Unit tests
    • Internals: Documenting the engine with doxygen
  • Internals: Core
    • Internals: Hooks
  • Internals: Packages
    • Internals: the Macaulay2Doc Package
    • Internals: the SimpleDoc Package
    • Internals: the Text Package
    • Internals: the Style Package

Other

• Internals: M2 in Linux distributions
• Internals: GitHub actions
• Internals: Adding a library for interval arithmetic (Case Study)
• Internals: Miscellaneous Topics (put other bits here for now)

Future

• "Road map" (ongoing and future "internals" tasks/projects/ideas)
• Virtual meetings are great 👍
  • Reduced cost of participation and is good for climate change!
• Ways to continue
  • Current experiment: one-day meeting 4-5 hours long (every 1-2 months)
  • Other modes are up for discussion
• Keep slack as our messaging platform
  • continue using it for organizational purposes
  • create channels for particular internal projects (private or public)