Contrib / Share URLs ?/ also building GCL etc

Richard Fateman wrote:

> For some reason the Macsyma company persistently
> resisted the establishment of a repository for
> code developed by users.  I suppose they saw
> it as taking resources that they didn't have
> to spare, and that management failed to see the
> benefits.
>   They also did not seem to understand the impact
> of the WWW in other ways.
>
> By the way, I am grateful that people are
> trying to make nice lisp systems, but my feeling
> is that the right way to do this building and
> testing is to have stable lisp systems as well
> as stable maxima systems ready to download, without
> the need to run make etc.

As far as I understand we are going to release ready
to install and run binary packages as soon as new
Maxima layout stabilizes a bit.

> When you have a new
> or changed package, you put the change in the appropriate
> .maxima-init.lisp   (or whatever...) file, and
> load it in to your system at startup.
>
> After a while you make a new system with all
> the changes and start again with an empty or
> minimal init file.
>    For example, I have been using the xmaxima from
> Bill Schelter's web site for over a year.  I
> read in lis-language "fixes" as needed.
>
> RJF
>
> Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
>
> >
> > jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>there must be huge Contrib / Share directories for
> >>Maxima (or Macsyma). I haven't found any URL on
> >>Maxima's webpage.
> >>Many thanks for a hint,
> >>
> >>Helmut Jarausch
> >>
> >>Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> >>Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen
> >>D 52056 Aachen, Germany
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Share directory is the part om Maxima CVS tree.
> > It is not so huge and many packages in Maxima
> > share library require some fixes to meke them
> > work with current Maxima.
> >
> >
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> >      Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> >
> >       <vvzhy@mail.ru>
> >     <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru>
> >      <vvzhy@yandex.ru>
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