[Fwd: Re: [Maxima] Plans for release candidate 2 and beyond]
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Maxima] Plans for release candidate 2 and beyond]
From: Stephen Leake
Date: 16 Sep 2002 10:20:17 -0400
James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
> 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.
It may be that the simplest solution for Windows is to require Cygwin,
and just use the Unix scripts.
Many people have said that they want a "stand-alone" version of Maxima
for Windows. However, Cygwin is _not_ hard to install, and it is
probably easier for the Maxima project to maintain a good
INSTALL.Windows that tells how to install Cygwin, than it is to
maintain inconsistent packaging schemes for Unix and Windows.
Just a thought...
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-- Stephe