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)

• setting up your machine for Macaulay2 development
• CMake build system
• the interpreter and how it is implemented
• Internals: D language
• adding functions to the engine and interfacing them to the front end
• Internals: engine class hierarchy (rings, module, gbs, resolutions, computations), engine.h
• Internals: M2 engine examples
• Internals: Unit tests
• Case study: Internals: Add a library for interval arithmetic

M2internals #2 (June 2020)

• Internals: Hooks
• Internals: Documenting the engine with doxygen
• Internals: M2 in Linux distributions
• Internals: GitHub actions

Other

• Other internal 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)