Re: [Gcl-devel] Maxima Status



Alas, no.  The changes were committed on the 19th.  I've written Mike
separately asking if he felt like doing another binary release in this
light.

Take care,

James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:

> Great. Such speedy service! I've been using the binary snapshots. Is
> your fix in the file listed as
> 
> gcl_2.5.0.cvs20021217_mingw32.zip 38243 KB 12/19/2001 05:31:00 PM
> 
> ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:09, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Hi James!  Just committed a fix -- please check it out.
> > 
> > Take care, and thanks for your work on maxima!
> > 
> > James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
> > 
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > In an effort to finally finish the long-overdue release of 5.9.0, I have
> > > been in self-imposed exile from Maxima-related mail  I apologize to all
> > > of you who haven't heard from me in a while. The exile has (almost)
> > > payed off. I am almost ready with a working windows install. I am down
> > > to one identified bug and one non-critical issue.
> > > 
> > > The bug: When compiled with GCL, Maxima barfs when any of its internal
> > > paths contain spaces. The easiest way to see this is to do
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > |abacus>export HOME="/tmp/with spaces"
> > > |abacus>maxima -l gcl
> > > GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  Version(2.5.0) Wed Oct  9 15:13:53 EDT 2002
> > > Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
> > > Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
> > > Maxima 5.9.0rc3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> > > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> > > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> > > This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> > > provides bug reporting information.
> > > Bad file spec: ?\/tmp\/with\ spaces\/\.maxima\/\#\#\#\.\{o\,lisp\,lsp\}
> > >  -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)
> > > |abacus>
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Maxima dies because it uses "$HOME/.maxima" by default. The problem does
> > > not appear with either clisp or cmucl. It could either be a GCL-specific
> > > problem in Maxima or a bug in GCL. I do not yet know.
> > > 
> > > The bug is a show-stopper under Windows because my HOME is "c:\Documents
> > > and Settings\amundson" (or something like that). It will be a problem
> > > for most users.
> > > 
> > > The non-critical issue: I don't know how to get InnoSetup to use the new
> > > Maxima icon. I will confess I haven't tried very hard yet. Any advice
> > > will be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > I should be able to check in the changes needed for a (relatively)
> > > simple windows build including packaging soon.
> > > 
> > > --Jim
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> -- 
> James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>
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