Pari.exe (2.2.7) for Windows

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

I have built a new Windows installer for Pari/GP. You can get it at

  ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unstable/Pari.exe

[5.2MB archive, 13.1MB installed]

This is a binary from the _unstable_ branch (2.2.7-alpha).

Features of this test release include :

1) PDF manuals: user's manual, tutorial, reference card
   [ ... Acrobat Reader not included ... ]

2) full online help ( gphelp )
  Try out ??sin, ???sin
          ???"elliptic curves"@
          ??readline

The one thing that does not work is ??, ??tutorial, ??refcard. You have to
open directly the PDF files.

3) Readline line-editing facilities, including command history and contextual
completion.
  Try out <TAB> and the cursor keys.

4) prettyprinter ( tex2mail )
  Try \o3 before typing some (simple) commands, e.g sin(x)

5) "galdata" support files, required by polgalois() in degree > 7
  Try polgalois(x^8 - 2)

6) High-resolution plot: ploth() and friends should work now.
  Try ploth(x = 0, 10, sin(x)), and try to resize the window.

7) install() should work, at least to import private symbols from the library
  Try install(addii, GG); addii(2,3)

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The installer sets

1) Start Menu entry

2) Desktop link  [ ... no dedicated icon yet ... ]

3) uninstall support (via Start Menu or Windows Add/Remove)

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Please test as much as you can! And report bugs, preferably to pari-dev (or
possibly pari-users), if something does not work as expected.

Compared to the previous binaries, I have tried to fix a number of problems
with the online help, which did not work on most installations. I have also
upgraded my build system which fixes all the internal bugs which were
reported ( in particular, SEGVs during any MPQS factorization ).

I am not aware of any remaining problem. All feedback will be much
appreciated !

Have fun,

    Karim.
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Karim Belabas                     Tel: (+33) (0)1 69 15 57 48
Dép. de Mathématiques, Bât. 425   Fax: (+33) (0)1 69 15 60 19
Université Paris-Sud              http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~belabas/
F-91405 Orsay (France)            http://www.parigp-home.de/  [PARI/GP]