imaxima announcements



Hi Robert san,

I am sorry for the very late response. I was out for year-end and
new year vacation. Comments inlined below.

On 2007/12/29, at 2:27, Robert Dodier wrote:

> On 12/27/07, Yasuaki Honda <yhonda at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> - As maxima-5.14.0 is released, I confirmed that imaxima-
>> imath-0.98.tar.gz is compatible with maxima 5.14.0 used with
>> breqn097a.zip. Combination of them has passed the full test for  
>> imaxima.
>
> Terrific, I'm glad to hear it. I have tried the new imaxima
> and it seems to work fine.
>
> A few weeks ago you wrote,
>
>> My plan is like the following:
>> As soon as I make the imaxima and imath to work with the latest  
>> breqn,
>> I will release the work as 0.99. Then, I will ask Robert san to  
>> import
>> the files into Maxima CVS.
>>
>> Since the 5.14.0 is already in preparation phase, I feel the above to
>> happen for 5.15.0 release.
>
> I guess the imaxima version number is actually 0.98, but that is
> not important. I will import imaxima 0.98 into Maxima CVS now.
> We'll have to work out the Makefile.am and other packaging problems.

Today or tomorrow, I will announce 0.99, which maintains some
documentation. It would be nice if you can import this package.

> I will import only imaxima, not breqn. I am a little bit worried about
> importing breqn, so I will assume breqn is separate from Maxima,
> unless someone wants to convince me otherwise.

Do you have any specific issues / concerns regarding the possible
inclusion of breqn package into Maxima?
The breqn097a.zip is distributed from my site and users can download
it separately anyway. I am, however, planning to take advantage of the
possibility to distribute it with imaxima-imath so that breqn is  
automatically
installed.
So, I want to convince you... It would be a good to hear from you
any specifice concerns and start discussing.

Yasuaki Honda, Chiba, Japan

>
>
> Thanks a lot for your work on Imaxima. I appreciate it a lot.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier