Greetings!
James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:33, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings! Thought I'd give a brief update here. gcl/maxima is now
> > very close to running without issue on all 11 Debian architectures!
>
> This is very good news. The work you and the others on the GCL team are
> doing is very impressive and greatly appreciated.
>
Thanks for indicating this. Often the biggest struggle in working on
gcl is wondering how many people really care.
> > When this round of porting is wrapped up, hopefully in a few days,
> > I'll post another update, which should then be somewhat constant as we
> > turn attention to missing features.
>
> Are you planning a new release? If so, will it be 2.4.4 or 2.5.0?
>
Yes. 2.5.0.
> > P.S. -- it sure would be nice to get rid of those pejorative comments
> > regarding gcl in maxima's README.lisps :-)
>
> I'm sorry about that. I was trying to disabuse people of the idea that
> maxima was only supported for GCL. It should not have sounded as
> negative about GCL. The file has been updated in CVS. (Let me know if
> the current version sounds better!)
>
This was just a smiley remark, of course! Honest opinions of whatever
persuasion are of course preferable in any case. Current version
sounds fine to me.
> Best,
> Jim
>
Take care,
>
>
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Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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