Subject: Expand, factor... as a way to solve, simplify?
From: C Y
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:43:25 -0700 (PDT)
--- Daniel Lemire <lemire@ondelette.com> wrote:
> I've run Maxima several times on my Linux box. As I ran it again and
> again, my machine started to get slower and slower. Yet, Maxima
> wasn't
> "on". I did "ps -A" to discover that several Maxima processes were
> running unattended. I'm afraid to report this as a bug because people
> are going to start arguing that it is a feature and that it is up to
> me
> to run "kill" after I execute a piece of software.
Is this happening when you use xmaxima? If I recall correctly, that is
a know bug with xmaxima in 5.6. There was some discussion about it in
the archives. That should be fixed in CVS.
Don't worry about reporting bugs - we need feedback. In this case, you
have already contributed by showing us issues we need to address in the
documentation, with the cases you have already mentioned that turned
out to work.
> the community shouldn't reject RFE and bug reports on the basis that
> it is the "user's fault" or "this software is free".
I agree. We are in transition at the moment - the original maintainer
has passed away and we are not even sure who will be doing primary
development or how we want to handle it yet. Given a little time,
things may settle down into more traditional project form.
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