--- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> 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?
Win 98. It could be a color depth issue, or perhaps it's the NVIDIA
card? I tried it on one other computer (also Win 98) and didn't have
this problem, so it obviously isn't Windows 98 itself.
A fairly minor point I suspect.
> > 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?
The second computer I tried didn't have that happen. It must have been
my browser. My apologies - disregard.
> > 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?
It was discussed, but I can't remember where the thread is. Anyone
remember it? I don't have any useful ideas as to what to do about it.
This one did occur on both Win 98 computers I tried it on.
CY
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