Current Contributors to Gnumex
- Jason Nicholson - Updated the webpage.
- Jonathan R. Birge - Helped maintain the Gnumex project in years past. Still an admin on the sourceforge project.
- Kristjan Jonasson - Added bug fixes, addition of 64 bit support, and current support of Gnumex.
- Richard Crozier - 64 bit support added.
- Tony Kelman - 64 bit support added.
- Matthew Brett - Worked on the project from 2000 till 2007. added mingw support, worked with dllwrap, which made the whole thing work.
Past Contributors to Gnumex
- Mumit Khan, - for helpful discussion, and his contributions to gcc.
- Ton Van Overbeek - who wrote the original scripts and .bat files.
- Gregory R. Lee - wrote the 1st patch to make Gnumex 64 bit compatible.
- Christopher Hulbert - Wrote a tutorial on using GNU autotools with matlab and Gnumex.
Others
- Mark Levedahl
- Lars Gregerson
- Christian Merkwirth
- Adrien Barny
The Story of Gnumex as Told by Kristján Jónasson
This was derived from an email from Kristján Jónasson in 2013 (you can find the email on the mailing list):
Ton Van Overbeek (European Space Agency; retired) wrote the original version according to the [old] html documentation. Matthew Brett (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) wrote the first documentation from 2000 and 2001, and he gives credit to Mumit Khan (BRAC University, Bangladesh) and also thanked Mark Levedahl, Lars Gregerson, Christian Merkwirth. Matthew was then and for some years after that the main maintainer along with Jonathan R. Birge (MIT).
Kristjan Jonasson, University of Iceland, made some contributions and refactoring during the years 2007-2009 (including making Gnumex work for Matlab version 7.4). When he began work on Gnumex, the main source file, gnumex.m, listed Ton, Matthew and Mumit as the authors, and the two administrators of Gnumex at Sourceforge were Matthew and Jonathan. Gnumex.m actually says: “Facility for added libraries, Fortran engine compilation Matthew Brett 3/5/2000 (DB), 9/7/2001 (PJ), 19/7/02 (RBH). Perhaps DB, PJ and RBH are initials of additional contributors?
In about 2010, 64 bits began to become the norm and it transpired that Gnumex didn’t work with 64 bit Matlab. Gregory R. Lee (Case Western Reserve University) wrote the first patch to solve this and posted it on the Gnumex mailing list. The issue was then solved independently by Tony Kelman (UC Berkeley) in 2012 and Richard Crozier (University of Edinburgh) in 2013. They both joined the Gnumex admin list in 2013, and in September 2013 they merged their solutions and incorporated the result into the Sourceforge Gnumex version.