On 1/10/09, Wolfgang Lindner <LindnerW at t-online.de> wrote:
> thank you all for this wonderful piece of software.
> I like it, I use it, I could not live without it ;)
I'm glad to hear that you find it useful.
I would be interested to hear what is your primary problem domain.
> The version number of Maxima ist now 5.17.0
> Should we wait until 5.99.3 before there is Maxima 6.0.0 ;)
> So: why not use integer increments 0<=n<=9 for indicating the development
> process?
> That is Maxima 5.17.0 could be Maxima 6.8.0.
> Perhaps this would be more 'fair' to reflect the continuous progress of
> Maxima in comparison with the other CAS.
Well, the numbering scheme is fairly arbitrary ... it seems like
we should change the major version number (5 at present) when there
are some fundamental changes, but in every release there are just a
lot of little incremental changes, and for the most part Maxima works
pretty much the same as before. Many aspects haven't changed in
30 years.
That said, maybe we should consider changing the major number from 5 to 6.
Maybe the mass of accumulated incremental changes is enough.
best
Robert Dodier