Those who have kept track of the evolution of abakus will have noticed that a lot of the improvements to abakus recently had first appeared in Ariya Hidayat’s SpeedCrunch. The last release of abakus integrated the high-precision math routines. And, now that I got a spare day today to work on it, the next release of abakus will also have the nifty syntax-highlighting input feature found in SpeedCrunch 0.6-beta1.
Thanks to some hard work by J. Hall, it will also feature a KDE Helpcenter Handbook so that it integrates even better into KDE. ;-) You can see it online at /abakus/doc/.
I want to add a bit more to it before releasing it, not to mention the various bugs I’ll have to track down that invariably come from the kind of code melding I’m doing. But it’s shaping up to be pretty nice. Once I have it more or less stabilized I’ll get it ported to Qt/KDE 4 and see if I can’t beat kcalc to the punch. ;-)