On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:21, willisb@unk.edu wrote:
> 2. A new distribution might attract more talent to
> maxima and thus more help in squashing future bugs.
It will also attract more bug finders. We all want to get rid of the
bugs, found or unfound.
> 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.)
This is an interesting idea. I think it would be useful between
releases. Releasing an updated patch file would be simpler than creating
an entire new release. Let's investigate this strategy after 5.9.0.
--Jim