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@@ -1,21 +1,14 @@ -# Introduction. +# MATE Calculator -This is `mate-calc`, a fork of `gnome-calc`, the calculator application -that was previously in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 -operating system. - -It incorporates a multiple precision arithmetic packages based on the -work of Professor Richard Brent, who has also kindly given me -permission to make it available. + -There is a single graphics driver for Gtk3 included with this release. - -## Getting started. - -The manual pages also describe how to use `mate-calc` in detail. +## General Information +MATE Calculator (*mate-calc*) started as a fork of *gnome-calc*, the calculator application +that was previously in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 +operating system. -## Calctool history. +## Calctool history Calctool was a project I worked on before I joined the OpenWindows DeskSet engineering group at Sun. It was originally released to @@ -42,15 +35,28 @@ application that is a part of CDE (albeit I had nothing to do with that). With its inclusion in the MATE CVS repository, it was renamed to -`mate-calc`. +*mate-calc*. More recently, Sami Pietila provided arithmetic precedence support and Robert Ancell converted the UI to use Glade. +## Build/Installation + +MATE Calculator requires GTK+ (>= 3.22) and the [GNU MPFR](https://www.mpfr.org/) and [GNU MPC](http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc) libraries. For a complete list of dependencies see the [build.yml](https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-calc/blob/master/.build.yml). + +Simple install procedure: + +``` +$ ./autogen.sh # Build configuration +$ make # Build +[ Become root if necessary ] +$ make install # Installation +``` + -## Acknowledgements. +## Acknowledgements -See the AUTHORS file. +See the [AUTHORS](https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-calc/blob/master/AUTHORS) file. Suggestions for further improvement would be most welcome, plus bug reports and comments. |