Please vote to add Maxima language to the list of approved programming languages in Sourceforge projects
Subject: Please vote to add Maxima language to the list of approved programming languages in Sourceforge projects
From: Stanislav Maslovski
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0000
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 11:21 +0100, Stefano Ferri wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> because I'm developing a program running in Maxima (SymSAP) and it is
> hosted on Sourceforge, and Maxima is not listed between the available
> programming languages, while Mathematica and Matlab there are, I've
> requested the Sourceforge team to add Maxima syntax to the list of
> official programming languages.
What does it mean in reality, the "list of approved languages"? I guess,
at the moment it is perfectly possible to host a project written in
Maxima on sourceforge, right? You host one?
> I've also suggested to add the highlighting rules to better read .mac
> files when browsing CVS/SVN, and I've proposed as a solution to start
> from the xml rules written for Kate by Alexey Beshenov.
This will require more work than just adding a language to the list and
has little benefits, IMO. Actually, sourceforge is going in the wrong
direction adding more and more bells and whistles to the pages...
--
Stanislav