[Fwd: Re: [Maxima] Plans for release candidate 2 and beyond]

I meant to cc the list on this:

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From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
To: C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Plans for release candidate 2 and beyond
Date: 14 Sep 2002 11:43:18 -0500

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 10:32, C Y wrote:
> 
> --- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > I would really like to see Windows binaries with both gcl and clisp.
> 
> Hmm.  OK.  Pardon the silly question, but how should we work it?  Have
> one installable binary which is maxima-gcl and another which is
> maxima-clisp, or bundle both into one large package?  I'm not sure alot
> of the Windows users will want to have to think about which lisp to use
> - they will expect it to "just work." Also, does the new xmaxima know
> how to offer the option of which one to use in Windows? 


Both maxima and xmaxima allow one to switch lisps at the command line.
Here is how I am doing the rpm packaging: I am creating 5 rpms
	1) maxima -- contains the wrapper scripts, share files, info files,
etc.
	2) maxima-exec_clisp -- contains the clisp image.
	3) maxima-exec_cmucl -- contains the cmucl image.
	4) maxima-exec_gcl -- contains the gcl image.
	5) maxima-xmaxima -- contains the xmaxima tcl files.

The first package is required for eveything, of course. Only one of 2-4
are needed, but all three can be installed simultaneously. The xmaxima
package is optional.

I don't know enough about windows to propose a packaging scheme for
windows.

--Jim