Soiurceforge : 5.29.1, Maxima web : 5.28.0. Is that OK ?
Subject: Soiurceforge : 5.29.1, Maxima web : 5.28.0. Is that OK ?
From: Emmanuel Charpentier
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:25:07 +0000 (UTC)
A wart in the recent update to maxima : the main Maxima web site
(http://maxima.sourceforge.net/, which is the first relevant link one
gets on google) mentions only the *previous* version. Its latest "news'
item is : "August 27, 2012: Maxima 5.28.0." and the "documentation"--
>'Maxima manual (english)" leads to
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima.html, which still
claims to be "Maxima 5.28.0 Manual".
Perusing the Maxima mailing list archive shows that Robert Dodier
announced on Dec 3, 2012 that he intended to release 5.29 after a
shakedown period. Said shakedows seems to have turned up at least a
problem with user interface, and as Dec 26, 2012, Robert Dodier agreed to
wait after Jan 14, 2013 to create a windows installer.
So it seems that Maxima 5.29.1 is not yet released.
However, AFAICT, it seems to be largely "in the wild" : people in the
Maxima mailing list, as well as on sage google groups, seems to refer to
it as "the current" maxima, and it has been packaged at least in Debian
unstable (and, in I am not mistaken, in Suse). The sourceforge repository
points to 5.29.1 as the default download (except for Windows, whose last
version seems to be 5.28.0).
Were we too hasty ?
In other words, should we consider 5.29.1 "released", the Linux packages
"up to date" and the Windows version "late" or 5.29.0 "unreleased", the
Linux packages "experimental" and the Windows version "up to date" ?
Either way, the current inconsistency between the Maxima We site and the
Sourceforge repository should be fixed.
HTH,
Emmanuel Charpentier