--- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> Here is what I think the criteria should be for release candidate 2:
>
> 1) Show-stopping bugs in rc1 fixed.
> -Done, or nearly so. The worrying thing lately is with the
> socket problems recently observed under windows. I would really like
> to hear if the same problem appears using clisp. Is anyone doing
> windows builds with clisp?
Jim, what's the ultimate goal there for Windows? Do we go with
whichever Lisp gives us a fully operational build more quickly, or do
we want the speed gcl can give?
> 2) Camm's alternative gcl linking procedure added.
> -Mostly done. Needs more (some!) testing.
What procedures would we do to test that?
> 3) Binary packages for RedHat Linux (and other rpm-based
> distributions)
> and Windows.
> -Linux: Nearly done. (Sample packages are building as I
> speak.)
> -Windows: Great progress has been made. I hope we will have
> solid packages soon.
I know this probably isn't strictly relevant to this release, but is
the Debian package maintainer still active? Also, has anyone thought
about doing a gentoo linux ebuild package? (I'm considering doing this
once I get my hands on a working gentoo system, but if someone else is
doing it then there is little point.)
> 4) Xmaxima stabilized.
> -I'm told we are very close. The problem with spaces is not
> yet fixed. I hope it will be, but I don't think it should be a
> showstopper if it drags on much longer.
Agreed. I've run into another Xmaxima problem - I don't know if it
impacts Linux (for the first time in years I don't have ready access to
a Linux box - aarrrrgghh) but on Windows if you resize the browser
window with a plot present in the maxima document, the redrawing
routines seem to have some problems. I sent an email with a screenshot
to the list but it doesn't seem to have made it - if other people can
confirm this we might want to file it as a bug.
> Any thoughts on these criteria will be appreciated.
Sounds good. :-) An exciting time in Maxima development. My only
other thought is that this might be worth announcing on Freshmeat - I
think you can announce it as a developer release. Also, for that
purpose and probably other places as well, we might want to put
together a short list of things that have changed since 5.6 (if that's
possible :-)
CY
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