On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 22:43, C Y wrote:
>
> --- 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?
I would really like to see Windows binaries with both gcl and clisp.
> > 2) Camm's alternative gcl linking procedure added.
> > -Mostly done. Needs more (some!) testing.
>
> What procedures would we do to test that?
Actually, I was hoping Camm would test it.
> > 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.)
I think we should welcome and encourage any contributions of binary
packages.
> > 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 :-)
I was planning to announce on Freshmeat. I think we should also consider
announcing on sci.math.symbolic and comp.lang.lisp.
I'm working on the list of changes. I should have made that another
criterion.
--Jim