I have built pre59 on windows using clisp. I spent several hours trying to
build the gcl from cvs,
but got failures in the fasl loading, using the latest released version of
cygwin. I sugest that
we drop support for gcl entirely, and only support cmucl and clisp. These
two platforms are
actively supported. Then to get xmaxima working, we need to use the clisp
tk bindings if we
want to, but it is my impression that a better gui needs to be developed
anyway.
Dan Stanger
James Amundson wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 12:37, dan.stanger@ieee.org wrote:
> > When pre59 is released, is a windows binary planned? I think that
> > we would get much wider use if we do.
>
> There are two issues here. I will address them separately:
>
> 1) Window binaries. I have to confess that I haven't even looked at how
> to generate maxima binaries on windows. (Is the procedure even
> documented? Does it require cygwin?) I definitely would like to have
> windows binaries available, but we need a volunteer to produce them.
>
> Any volunteers to produce the window binaries?
>
> 2) The release plans. The goal is to have a stable, well-documented
> Maxima 6.0 that works with multiple lisp implementations. To that end,
> we will have a series of development releases starting with 5.9.0. The
> development series releases may not be stable enough for everyday use. I
> hope that 6.0 will be distributed far and wide. I do not want to promote
> the 5.9.x releases to new users, lest they be frightened away.
>
> Best,
> Jim