Stuff that makes a windows binary doesn't sound like it
should be thrown out. I am using xmaxima, and I would hope
that any improvements to maxima could still be delivered
the same way as that self-installing version.
Or do I misunderstand?
RJF
C Y wrote:
> --- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:
>
>>Greetings!
>>
>>It seems that some other directories in current Maxima CVS tree
>>need to be revised a bit for Maxima 5.9.
>>
>>1) It seems that major part of files in /bin aren't required
>>but I'm not quite sure.
>>
>
> As I look at them, I think most of them are utilities and build script
> helpers originally used when Dr. Schelter was maintaining maxima on the
> original server. The only three which look more substantial are
> mgnuplot, omplotdata, and xmaxima. I concur with Vadim that the rest
> are no longer required.
>
>
>>2) I think (IMHO) that /books and /deliver aren't
>>worth including in Maxima 5.9 CVS.
>>
>
> I agree. Books seems to be related to the Netmath stuff? and Deliver
> appears to have been used to make the installer for the Windows binary.
> This is no longer needed.
>
>
>>3) I suggest to merge /elisp and /emacs in one
>>directory. Although I like emaxima very much
>>but old emacs modes can be still useful especially
>>for debugging.
>>
>
> Sounds good - my thoughts would be as follows:
>
> call the new directory emacs
> rename the old maxima mode to maxima-debug-mode
> Figure out what the rest of the el files present there actually do.
>
>
>>4) Please don't forget to move /misc-contrib
>>into appropriate place in new /share subdir.
>>
>>5) What is the purpose of /o directory?
>>It seems to me that it can be safely abolished.
>>
>
> Can't figure this one out except it seems to have code from gnuplot in
> it. Maybe Dr. Schelter experimenting with plotting code? Agree with
> removal recommendation.
>
>
>>6) /src directory contains some trash files.
>>Namely:
>>
>>benchmarks (move it into /doc)
>>bigmax.all
>>cmd.el
>>exclude
>>install.tcl
>>make-sys_maxima.c
>>omplot-out
>>xgraph-out
>>maxout.zic
>>maxout.geomview
>>
>
> Agree here as well.
>
>
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