From: Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:05:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: documentation update
X-Git-Tag: release_0-8-0~34
X-Git-Url: https://www.ginac.de/ginac.git//ginac.git?p=ginac.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4f3ea3d317b0a85b2fa616bade0f98e23f0c570

documentation update
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index e451f9d5..a728e317 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz: dist
 
 # Rule to build RPM distribution package
 rpm: $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
-	rpm --tarball a $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+	rpm -ta --clean $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 19e392bd..2b269c3e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 This file records noteworthy changes.
 
+0.8.0 (<date>)
+* Complete revamp of indexed objects. Instead of multiple classes for
+  indexed things and their indices there is now only one "indexed" class
+  and two types of indices: "idx" for simple indices and "varidx" for
+  indices with variance. There are predefined delta, epsilon and metric
+  tensors, and a function simplify_indexed() that performs canonicalization
+  and dummy index summations.
+* Added an option "expand_indexed" to expand() to perform expansion of
+  indexed objects like (a+b).i -> a.i + b.i
+* Renamed get_indices() to get_free_indices(), which no longer returns
+  dummy indices and checks the consistency of indices in sums.
+* subs() works on matrices.
+
 0.7.3 (28 February 2001)
 * Several bugfixes and minor performance tunings.
 * Added a section to the tutorial about adding new algebraic classes to GiNaC.