Hi,
I've tagged RELEASE-5_24-BRANCH in CVS and built tar.gz
and rpms and posted them to the SF file manager:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files
As always, give it a try, and it would be great if someone
can build and upload a Windows installer.
A couple of issues related to recent discussions:
(1) I would be interested to know if we can have a workable
alternative to GCL on Windows. I know that there was a
Windows installer built with CCL, but I don't remember what
was the final assessment of that. It seems like an appropriate
time to try it with this release, so if someone wants to build
and upload a package built with CCL or any other alternative,
that would be great.
(2) Perhaps this is an appropriate time to put the wheels in
motion to switch over from CVS to Git. I suggest that we
take the tag release-5_24-base as the target; after we get
everything up to that tag converted to GIt, we can apply
any patches that have accumulated since then.
About converting to Git, I am aware that it's not entirely
straightforward. If there are problems, I suggest that
instead of trying to convert the entire history, that we
omit any branches. Maybe that will simplify the problem
enough. Anyone interested in branches can host a read-only
copy of CVS.
Many thanks for all the work that goes into every release.
best
Robert Dodier