On 2009-04-18 21:39 +0100, ?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
> Also I was thinking when making this Mac release - on a mac, Maxima,
> wxMaxima, gnuplot could happily coexist in a single .app (which would
> improve simplicity and portability). However an interesting question
> then is, how do you name .app and how do you count versions.
Making a monolithic .app is not flexible actually I'd prefer being able
to download the individual .app packages. Gnuplot is useful to have
anyway.
> It seems that wxMaxima and Maxima releases are synchronus - both get
> new releases 3 times per year normally. Both also don't have any
> roadmap or goals for next version numbers (like Maxima 6.0 or
> wxMaxima 1.0) ... Constantly increasing a minor version number is
> thus in fact a nonsense.
A greater challenge would be making SLIME? talk to maxima. It is far
more superior than the emacs interface included in maxima.
> I thought Maxima would go through bigger changes - like renaming all
> the functions in a coherent way (like Mathematica), but it seems
> community is against it - so there really is no "incompatible" change
> which would cause a major version number increase to Maxima 6.0.
Usually big changes are pushed by users. The more people using it the
better.
Footnotes:
? http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
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