maxima-5.9.1.9rc2 now available



Robert Dodier writes:
> On 9/26/05, Vadim V. Zhytnikov  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Windows build will be available later today.
> 
> 
> super!
> 
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/people/vvz/Maxima/maxima-5.9.1.9rc2.exe
> 
>>Maybe it is better to include texi2html 1.76 into
>>distro tarball.  RC2 build failed to me on making
>>html documentation both on Windows and Linux due to
>>missing texi2html on Windows and wrong texi2html
>>version on Linux. I just worry that we may get
>>many "I can't build Maxima" reports especially on
>>Linux because texi2html version which comes with
>>tetex is not suitable.
> 
> 
> i suppose it wouldn't be too hard to bundle texi2html
> into the distribution tar.gz.
> 
> however a build directly from cvs would still fail.
> 
> unless texi2html 1.76 were committed to cvs.
> the though of which makes my head hurt.
> 

Yes.  Is it possible to make configure check for
particular texi2html version and issue appropriate
error message instead of obscure failure in the
last stage of "make install" ?


> another option is to package the documentation separately
> from everything else. building maxima proper would not
> require texi2html. how about that?
> 

This is post 5.9.2 IMHO.  Frankly I thought that es/pt will be
incorporated into next release not into 5.9.2 (but I don't mind).
We need optional language build/installation.  Make describe
and xmaxima understand locale etc.

--
      Vadim V. Zhytnikov