From: Raymond Toy <toy at rtp>@www.ma.utexas.edu on 07/22/2002
04:28 PM AST
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Subject: [Maxima] Re: Maxima release?
I think we ought to make a new distrbution without
trying to squash all the known bugs.
1. If we did clean out the bug list, it wouldn't stay
clean for long.
2. A new distribution might attract more talent to
maxima and thus more help in squashing future bugs.
3. When possible, I'd like future bug fixes to be
placed in a "maxima-patch.lisp" file that would be read on start up. Many
of the fixes we've done could be handled that way. (When the patch file
fixes something that isn't
loaded at start up, it may need to be re-read; I
think something like this could be done.)
Barton