On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:53, C Y wrote:
> --- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > 1) I updated the "release plans" page on the website to reflect my
> > current thoughts on what we should do next.
> >
> > 2) The most immediate plan is to make the next release focus on bug
> > fixes. Case-sensitivity issues would be addressed in the following
> > release.
>
> When you say new command line system is this where we figure out a new
> parsing scheme and prepare to help interfaces like TeXmacs work more
> easily with Maxima? (I'll vote for that as a good next step.)
No. It isn't very clear. I mean fix up the spaghetti that I created to
invoke the maxima lisp image with command line arguments. It's the code
that includes the maxima-run-lisp script. It's also the code that is
worthless on Windows. I wrote it; I doubt anyone else understands it. I
have in mind a new system that will work on both Unix and Windows. It
should also be easier to extend for new lisps.
New code for talking to external interfaces like TeXmacs is another
issue. We can consider that for the next release.
Did I make it clear that the 5.9.0 release should fix the problem
TeXmacs was having with plotting? That information may have been buried.
It's a TeXmacs bug, but I worked around it.
> > 3) The future plans are certainly open for debate.
>
> Look pretty good. Oh, did you want to comment on our big share package
> discussion we had a day or two back?
I haven't read it. Honestly, I have 384 unread mail messages in my
maxima folder. All I've done is scan them to see if they have any
pressing issues for the release. (Did I mention that the release took a
lot longer than I thought?) I will try to read that thread soon.
> Now we can add in the bug fixes that folks have been maintaining in
> separate copies. :-)
>
Maxima was frozen much longer than it should have been. We will try to
avoid ever freezing for so long again.
--Jim