proposed release schedule for maxima 5.9.3



Robert Dodier writes:
>>Robert, ???the compilation problem with languages was solved???
> 
> 
> well, not yet. here's a plan. comments?
> 
> (1) replace existing doc/info/texi2html w/ texi2html 1.76
> (commit texi2html 1.76 to maxima cvs)
> modify all languages makefiles to execute this new texi2html
> 

Yes

> (2) create doc/info/en and move doc/info/*.texi there
> re-enable makefile recursion into doc/info/{es,pt} directories
> (make will process all languages)

It is much better to make configure options --enable-language-,
one per language except English, which triggers processing of 
corresponding doc/info/
English language is processed always by default.  Thus
 > configure
will compile and install English documentation
 > configure --enable-lang-es
English and Spanish
 > configure --enable-lang-es --enable-lang-pt
English, Spanish, and Portuguese

> (3) modify rpm spec file to create per-language rpm's.
> i believe rpm recognizes a %lang option for that purpose.
> 

Each language specific documentation goes into
separate rpm package. Say maxima-lang-es-...,
maxima-lang-pt-...

I'll add item

(4) Locale sensitive describe

> this doesn't address the creation of per-language windows
> installer files. i don't know how to do that.

I'll take care about this

> 
> not sure if creation of pdf's will succeed in this scheme.
> i'm inclined to go ahead without pdf's if we can get info
> and html working.
> 

What is wrong with .pdf?


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