todo for beta 2



>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

    James> Everyone,
    James> Here is what I would like to see done for the second beta release of
    James> 5.9.1:

    James> 2) Fix for CMUCL bug reported by Vadim V. Zhytnikov. 
    James>       -This can't be too difficult. I should probably be the one to do
    James> it.

Which bug is this?

    James> 4) Add documentation for new plotting routines.
    James>       -I was somehow convinced that I had already done this, but
    James> obviously I have not. Most of the necessary information is on the demo
    James> web page I created.

Would be nice if the log plots could do something than setting the
gnuplot preamble string.  
 
    James> 5) Apply the compilation-warning-reducing patches from Andreas Eder.
    James> Andreas has sent me a set of changes that dramatically reduce the number
    James> of compiler warnings in a maxima compile. I think this is very important
    James> work. We should be very grateful for it. Since it is a large patch,

Is this something you really want to do for an imminent release?

    James> however, I would like to see at least one pair of eyeballs go over it
    James> before it goes in. I would also like to see testing on gcl, cmucl and
    James> clisp. If you would like to volunteer to look at the changes, please
    James> contact me and I will send you the changes. (It's a ~400k tarball.)

Assuming you want this for the release, you can send it to me at this
address.  Or better yet, put it on some ftp site or something for
people to grab.

Ray