I like binaries.
Sometimes it is necessary to build your own.
I had to do it for a Sun workstation I was using.
I am using windows XP now.
Regards, Jim FitzSimons
-----Original Message-----
From: maxima-admin at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-admin at math.utexas.edu] On
Behalf Of Steve Haflich
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:53 AM
To: Richard Fateman
Cc: 'Vadim V. Zhytnikov'; 'Herb Martin'; maxima at math.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Windows installer structure
From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
It seems to me that not everyone needs to build Maxima on
Windows. Mostly just one person needs to do that.
Just to make sure everyone understand the sense of `build' under
discussion, this is the final creation of the downloadable installer
package. This needs to be done by one developer once per release
cycle (really a couple times to allow for testing). Selecting a
non-free product to build the Windows install package would not
prevent either developers or users from recompiling from source, since
that doesn't depend on the installation package.