On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:38, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> CY> Jim's original proposal had this outline:
>
> CY> Incorporate new build system when I am done with it. Clean up
> CY> package. Call the new version Maxima 5.9. The purpose of this release
> CY> is to act as a beta release for the first major release of the new
> CY> Maxima project, 6.0. Focus for 5.9 should be the shift to parity among
> CY> ANSI Common Lisp implementations.
(Thanks for finding this, CY.)
> Hmm, I tried to find Jim's original post, but couldn't. Hence the
> posting.
We should put something about the plan on the web page. I will try to
write something when I return from Supercomputing 2001, where I've been
for the past week.
> CY> If i read this correctly, what he is saying (and I think it's a sound
> CY> idea) is to focus on three thing right now - the new build system,
> CY> trying to organize and clean up the structure and packages, and
> CY> compiling on different Lisps. I'm not sure where the numerical code
> CY> falls in that, but at a guess that's probably a 6.1 feature.
>
> Sounds good. I guess what goes in depends on when 5.9/6.0 is
> released. It gets hard to keep things in sync if changes are kept out
> for a long time. Perhaps a branch for 5.9/6.0 and a development
> branch that includes other stuff?
>
> I'll leave these and other questions to the official maintainers. :-)
5.9 is supposed to be the development series for 6.0. I would like 6.0
to be released as soon as possible, but no sooner. I/we haven't been
doing this long enough for me to be comfortable trying to estimate
dates. Sorry.
--Jim