On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:11 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Tar.gz & rpms for 5.10.99rc1 (1st 5.11 release candidate) are in the
> SF file manager
I've tested those files and I have a few comments:
TARBALL
1. The figures that were in interfaces/xmaxima/doc/figures in the
repository, appear in a wrong location: interfaces/xmaxima/doc.
The cause of the problem is that when I committed those figures
to the repository, I was using an ancient version of automake (1.4)
while Robert used a newer version (1.8) to create the tarball.
I fixed the problem by making the Makefile.am files compatible
with all versions of automake.
2. describe fails if Maxima has not been built for the current language
being used. For example, suppose I do:
./configure
make
make install
and then I use Maxima in this way:
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 maxima
I then get the following error:
(%i1) ? exp
Could not find `/usr/local/info/es.utf8/maxima-index.lisp'
It the describe index for the current language is not found, Maxima
should then look for the English index.
3. Is there any particular reason to include the html version of
the Maxima manual in the distribution tar.gz file? I think that the
tar.gz archive should only include source files. We are talking
about a lot of HTML files (en, es, es.utf8, pt and pt.utf8) which
take a lot of space in the archive. The maxima.info* files can also
be generated from *.texi, but they are useful for those who build
Maxima with the lisp method, and they are just a few files anyway.
4. Unless anybody has an objection, I would like to include the PDF
version of the manual figures in the distributed tar.gz. They are
necessary to create the PDF version of the Manual.
RPM FILES
1. maxima_5.10.99rc1-1.fedora2.i386.rpm should not include the file
/usr/share/info/xmaxima.info.gz or any other files in the directory
/usr/share/maxima/5.10.99rc1/xmaxima/
Most o those files are already part of the package
maxima-xmaxima-5.10.99rc1-1.fedora2.i386.rpm
The file xmaxima.info.gz is not in the maxima-xmaxima package but
it should.
When one tries to install the two rpm files in Debian (using alien)
it fails because of those repeated files.
2. If one does not install the maxima-xmaxima RPM, all the Maxima
commands that depend on openmath (openplot_curves, plotdf, ...)
will fail. I will update the documentation to warn the users about
the commands that depend on xmaxima.
Regards,
Jaime