Maxima 5.20 release branch planned for Dec 1

I certainly agree that the exponent markers could be documented better, as
could many other parts of Maxima.  And there are surely many bugs,
infelicities, and omissions in all parts of Maxima which might well cause
confusion and disillusion.

However, I am surprised that this particular issue seems so important and
urgent to you that you insist that other improvements to functionality and
documentation in the next release be held up until it can be resolved.

            -s

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:51 PM, John Ogilvie <ogilvie at cecm.sfu.ca> wrote:

> To all those involved with release of the next branch,
>     I trust that somebody can write accurate descriptions of the
> meaning and use of b, d, e and s, and their majuscule counterparts, in a
> number such 3.0e-5 and incorporate these into the help file with their
> corresponding entries in the help index, for the next release.  To
> somebody who has used computers for 20 years and who programmes in Lisp
> or other obscure languages, this description seems like a trivial matter
> -- "everybody knows that already" -- but to some student that lacks that
> experience and who is trying, under encouragement of teachers, to learn
> how to operate Maxima successfully such information is valuable; its
> lack causes confusion and disillusion with the producers of software
> with deficient documentation.
>      JFO
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Robert Dodier wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm planning to make a branch for the Maxima 5.20 release on Dec 1,
> > with a stable release a few weeks after that.
> > So if you developers want to get something into the next release,
> > now is the time to do it.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Robert Dodier
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