PADE version numbers



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PADE version numbers

 

This manual describes the motivation, installation, and use of version 1.0.x of the PADE program. PADE version numbers have the general form z.y.x where x, y, and z are integers. The number z.y labels a major release version of PADE if y is an even integer. For example, the current major release version is 1.0 and the next major release will be version 1.2. Major development versions of PADE are labeled by numbers in which y is an odd integer. These versions of PADE are distributed internally at NIST and are not released to the public. A major release of PADE can be considered to be a stable version. No new features will be added to a given major version once it has been released. The only changes that will be made to such a version, after its release, will be bug-fixes that have been reported by users. The integer x appended to a major release version number (e.g., z.y) is the minor version number for that major release and indicates the number of times that release has been updated. For example, a PADE version labeled 1.0.6 will have had six patches applied to the initial (1.0.0) release of major version 1.0.

Each major version of PADE will have a corresponding version of the NIST PADE User's Manual devoted to it. The manual will not be updated for different minor-version releases, however. The manual only describes the features and capabilities of a given major version and these will not change in later releases of the same major version. Any information that a user may require because of changes made in a minor release will be documented in a RELEASE-NOTES file located in the top PADE directory. This file is described below.

New major versions of PADE will be released periodically. A new major version will be released for several reasons some of which include the following.



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