On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 10:16, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
> It's great that maxima is now on sourceforge so that the various
> patches can get added.
>
> However, what are the goals of maxima-pre59? I know that a better
> build process is one major goal. What are the other goals?
I have the pre59 module in mind as a place to put code, documentation,
etc., while we prepare to rearrange the module for release as 5.9.
Little bug fixes are definitely appropriate.
> I, of course, would like to see some of the more accurate numerical
> routines get added, :-).
Right. We might consider them a bug fix. I'm really not sure. I have to
confess that at the time you were discussing your more accurate
numerical routines I wasn't paying as much attention as I am now. I
think we should re-open the topic for discussion. I should also point
out that I think Richard has the final say on whether the new routines
go in.
> The things that I did a while ago had some
> simple dependencies on f2cl. Should those be removed before being
> integrated? It would be much easier if we just added the f2cl
> macros/functions that we need so that we can just take the converted
> code without hand modifications.
I don't know. I'd have to take a look at the code you have and the f2cl
routines.
> For updates and things, should we send patches here for possible
> inclusion in to the sources? Or is there some other way?
If the patches are small, please send them to the list. If they are not
small, say so and we will work something out.
--Jim