I plan to put together a triage list after another day or two of reports
have come in. Most of the issues mentioned so far on the list are either
familiar or unsurprising to me.
Yours are the exceptions. I am surprised by all three problems you had:
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 12:01, C Y wrote:
> Well, I tried the install on my Windows box at work. I only note a few
> problems, most minor and probably none severe enough to justify a
> further delay.
>
> 1) In the html intro, the maxima logo has a messed up background.
> Probably the thing to do there is make a version of the logo with a
> white background specifically for that page - I think the transparency
> is causing issues.
I haven't seen a problem on any of the Windows platforms I've tried (XP,
2000 and 98). Does anyone else have this problem?
Which platform are you on? Is it a color depth problem?
> 2) The file on sourceforge downloaded as a .exe.zip file, which it
> isn't. I had to rename it in the dos prompt. Once I did that it
> worked fine though.
That didn't happen for me. Anyone else?
> 3) The startup time was extremely long, on the order of 30-40 seconds.
> I know this is a known problem but I'm almost postitive it will be the
> number one bug report filed by people who try out 5.9.0 on Windows and
> will likely be a killer for some. I don't propose holding up the
> release, which is after all a developer release, but we should probably
> be ready for the reports this will generate. Has anyone figured out
> what might be causing it? The most promising thing I recall was a
> report that smaller hard disks didn't have as long a wait, but 5.5beta
> doesn't seem to have that problem. Anyway, thought I'd mention it.
Again, I haven't seen this on any machine I've tried. Was this issue
discussed on the list at some point? Do you have any idea what the
problem could be?
--Jim