Robert Dodier writes:
> Hello,
>
> Let's have another Maxima release.
>
> I propose that another release branch be created in cvs on August 1.
> (And another one on December 1, although that's out of scope here.)
Good!
> I also propose that release be named 5.11.0.
> Rationale: people expect subminor release numbers to indicate
> minor changes, yet 5.9.3cvs is quite distinct from 5.9.0.
> As for jumping to 5.11 instead of 5.10, some people (Linux world)
> expect even minor numbers to be stable releases.
Maxima 5.11 is OK to me. As for "stabiliy" it depends
on what do you mean by this word. If "feature rich" and
"bug free" is concerned then Maxima is stable enough.
In any case it is more stable than many other OS projects.
But I'm still inclined to consider 5.X as unstable
development branch since we are probably going to do
various incompatible changes between releases.
> Getting a release out the door depends a lot on what other
> people are doing, especially Vadim. Some pretty serious changes
> are proposed for the Windows packaging. I am inclined to think
> that if packaging problems are going to substantially delay a
> release, we should just go ahead and release whatever we have
> instead of waiting, and we'll get the additional changes in the next one.
>
Oh, Windows installer is not the issue at all!
Component installer is in Maxima CVS.
I only have cut omplotdata due to recent xmaxima/omplotdata
changes. But
1. I want to resolve .png creation problem on Windows.
I'll try to do it in few days.
2. Portuguese documentation is broken in CVS. What we are
going to do with this?
Best wishes,
Vadim
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