Internals: Meeting Notes

This page contains notes from the M2internals meetings. Should you be interested in joining our Slack workspace, where we discuss M2 development topics like the ones below, please email Anton Leykin.

• Building Macaulay2 from source

  • Internals: Autotools Build System
  • Internals: CMake Build System

• Components of Macaulay2

  • Internals: Safe-C Compiler
  • Internals: the Interpreter
    • Internals: the D language
  • Internals: the Engine
    • Internals: Class Hierarchy in the Engine
    • Internals: Engine Unit tests
    • Internals: Engine Documentation (Doxygen)
  • Internals: Core
    • Internals: Hooks

• Topics that involve several components

  • Internals: inheritance (of M2 types)
  • Internals: promote and lift

• Case studies

  • Internals: Adding a Function in Engine, Interpreter, and Core
  • Internals: Adding a Library for Interval Arithmetic

• Web servers

  • Internals: InteractiveShell
  • Internals: Macaulay2Web

• Other

  • Internals: Macaulay2 Distributions
  • Internals: Release Checklist
  • Internals: GitHub Actions
  • Internals: Miscellaneous Topics (put other bits here for now)
  • M2 Syntax Highlighting
  • M2 Profiler

Future

• Virtual meetings are great 👍
  • Reduced cost of participation and is good for climate change!
  • Infrequent in-person meetings may happen eventually
• Ways to continue
  • Current mode: meeting every first Thursday of the month, 1.5 hours long
  • 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)
• "Internals: Road map" (ongoing and future "internals" tasks/projects/ideas, may be outdated)