Is there an archive of contributor's packages ?



hello thomas,

> I would like to know if there is an archive with many *.mac packages
> with short descriptions of them. Until now I only could find some
> of them separately, but I would like to find a more conveninent way to
> browse such files. Have you heard of something of that kind ?

many packages are included with maxima:
see the maxima/share/ directory in the distribution.
maxima/share/share.usg and maxima/share/contrib/README
have some descriptions.
you can browse the most recent revisions of the share packages:
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/maxima/maxima/share

there are some other packages (not included in the distribution) listed here:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/3rdpartycode.shtml
i'm not aware of any other such collections.

hth,
robert dodier