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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