Release 8.0.0 (#1319)

Perform mostly administrative stuff that is needed for release. Change version number, use PyPI mathics-scanner, update CHANGES.rst, etc.

.github/workflows/consistency-checks.yml

@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         sudo apt update -qq && sudo apt install llvm-dev remake
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
-        python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
-        git clone https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        cd mathics-scanner/
         pip install -e .
-        cd ..
+        # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
+        # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
+        # git clone https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+        # cd mathics-scanner/
+        # pip install -e .
+        # cd ..
 
     - name: Install Mathics with minimum dependencies
       run: |

.github/workflows/mypy.yml

@@ -22,20 +22,21 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         sudo apt update -qq && sudo apt install llvm-dev remake
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
-        # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
-        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        # git clone --single-branch --branch operator-refactor-part1.5 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        cd mathics-scanner/
         pip install -e .
-        cd ..
+        # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
+        # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
+        # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+        # cd mathics-scanner/
+        # pip install -e .
+        # cd ..
 
     - name: Install Mathics with minimum dependencies
       run: |
         make develop
     - name: Run mypy
       run: |
         pip install mypy==1.13 sympy==1.12
+        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
         touch ./mathics-scanner/mathics_scanner/py.typed
         pip install ./mathics-scanner/
         mypy --install-types --non-interactive mathics

.github/workflows/pyodide.yml

@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ jobs:
           pip install "setuptools>=70.0.0" PyYAML click packaging pytest
 
           # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
-          git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+          # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
           # git clone --single-branch --branch operator-refactor-part1.5 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-          cd mathics-scanner/
-          pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
-          cd ..
+          # cd mathics-scanner/
+          # pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
+          # cd ..
 
-          make mathics/data/op-tables.json mathics/data/operator-tables.json
           pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
+          make mathics/data/op-tables.json mathics/data/operator-tables.json
           make -j3 check

.github/workflows/ubuntu-cython.yml

@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ jobs:
         pip install -e .
         cd ..
         # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
-        python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
-        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+        # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
+        # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
         # git clone --single-branch --branch operator-refactor-part1.5 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        cd mathics-scanner/
+        # cd mathics-scanner/
         pip install -e .
         cd ..
 

.github/workflows/ubuntu.yml

@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ jobs:
         cd ..
         # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
         # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
-        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+        # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
         # git clone --single-branch --branch operator-refactor-part1.5 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        cd mathics-scanner/
-        pip install -e .
-        python -m mathics_scanner.generate.build_tables
-        cd ..
+        # cd mathics-scanner/
+        # pip install -e .
+        # python -m mathics_scanner.generate.build_tables
+        # cd ..
 
-        # python -m pip install Mathics-Scanner[full]
+        python -m pip install Mathics-Scanner[full]
         remake -x develop-full
     - name: Test Mathics
       run: |

.github/workflows/windows.yml

@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@ jobs:
         pip install -e .
         cd ..
         # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
-        python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
-        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
+        # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
+        # git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
         # git clone --single-branch --branch operator-refactor-part1.5 https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner.git
-        cd mathics-scanner
+        # cd mathics-scanner
+        # pip install -e .
+        # python -m mathics_scanner.generate.build_tables
+        # cd ..
         pip install -e .
-        python -m mathics_scanner.generate.build_tables
-        cd ..
 
         # python -m pip install Mathics-Scanner[full]
         make develop-full

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ repos:
     - id: check-merge-conflict
     - id: debug-statements
       stages: [pre-commit]
+      exclude: ChangeLog-spell-corrected.diff
     - id: end-of-file-fixer
       stages: [pre-commit]
+      exclude: ChangeLog-spell-corrected.diff
 -   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
     rev: 5.13.2
     hooks:
@@ -19,4 +21,5 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     - id: black
       language_version: python3
+      exclude: 'mathics/version.py'
       stages: [pre-commit]

CHANGES.rst

@@ -4,14 +4,19 @@ CHANGES
 8.0.0
 -----
 
+Jan 26, 2025
+
 This release is to get out some of the major changes that have gone on
 already in advance of redoing Boxing and Formatting.
 
+Code now supports the emscripten platform, so this code can be installed
+in pyodide using ``micropip.install``.
+
 Operators are now controlled from a new operators YAML table from the
 ``mathics-scanner`` repository. A pass was made over the Mathics parser
 to handle box operators more properly. More work is needed here.
 
-We started adding more debugging capabilites:
+We started adding more debugging capabilities:
 
 * ``Breakpoint[]``
 * ``Stack[]``, and
@@ -23,12 +28,12 @@ And in the ``Mathics3-Trepan`` repository:
 * ``Debugger[]``, and
 * ``TraceActivate[]``
 
-Option ``--post-mortem`` was added which goes into the `trepan3k debugger <https https://pypi.org/project/trepan3k/>`_ on an unrecoverable error. This option is  available on other front-ends..
+Option ``--post-mortem`` was added which goes into the `trepan3k debugger <https https://pypi.org/project/trepan3k/>`_ on an unrecoverable error. This option is available on other front ends..
 
-This debuggign code is very much alpha quality, but it greatly
+This debugging code is very much alpha quality, but it greatly
 improves the ability to debug problems in loading existing packages
 written from Mathematica. So packages ``BoolEval`` and ``CleanSlate``
-were added to the repostiory.
+were added to the repository.
 
 Also as a result of the improved ability to debug Mathics3, we now
 provide a version of Rubi 4.17 using git submodules . To use this you
@@ -85,6 +90,12 @@ By `@davidar <https://github.com/davidar>`_:
 * ``SquaresR``
 * ``Subfactorial``
 
+Documentation
++++++++++++++
+
+* Unicode operators appears in Django documentation. In the PDF, AMSLaTeX is used.
+* Summaries of builtin functions have been improved and regularized
+
 ``mathics`` command line
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
@@ -98,14 +109,19 @@ WMA Compatibility
 * ``GetEnvironment`` expanded to handle ``[]`` and ``{var1, var2,...}`` forms
 * The system ``packages`` directory has been renamed ``Packages`` to conformance with WMA.
 * ``$Path`` now includes a ``Packages`` directory under ``$HOME``.
+* All of the 100 or so Unicode operators without a pre-defined meaning are now supported
 
 Internals
 ---------
 
 * More of the on-OO evaluation code that forms what might be an
-  instruction evaluator has been moved out of module
+  instruction evaluator has been moved out of the module
   ``mathics.builtins`` put in ``mathics.eval``. This includes code for
   plotting, and making boxes.
+* nested ``TimeConstraint[]`` works via external Python module ``stopit``.
+* ``Pause[]`` is more interuptable
+* More code has been linted, more type errors removed, and docstrings added/improved
+
 
 Performance
 -----------
@@ -133,6 +149,8 @@ Bugs
 ----
 
 * Fix infinite recursion when formatting ``Sequence[...]``
+* Parsing ``\(`` ... ``\)`` improved
+* Fixed #1105, #1106, #1107, #1172 #1173, #1195, #1205, #1221, #1223, and #1228 among others
 
 Mathics3 Packages
 +++++++++++++++++
@@ -159,6 +177,8 @@ Python Package Updates
 7.0.0
 -----
 
+Aug 9, 2024
+
 Some work was done here in support of planned future improvements like
 lazy loading of builtin functions.  A bit of effort was also spent to
 modernize Python code and style, add more type annotations, remove