Soiurceforge : 5.29.1, Maxima web : 5.28.0. Is that OK ?



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