On 05/11/2013 08:22 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> O
> n the Maxima ports page on Sourceforge
> <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ports.html>;, there is a list of ports
> to Windows, GNU, etc. where the most recent version of Maxima is
> between 5.9 and 5.16.
>
> What is the point of this page, when the Sourceforge download page
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/>; has version 5.30 on
> Mac and Linux, and 5.28 on Windows?
>
I guess that page was important some years ago when Maxima was
undergoing changes to make it work with Common Lisp. I also do not see
any point that page, so I vote for sending it to the trash can. We also
have http://maxima.sourceforge.net/lisp.html which gives information
about Lisp versions that can be used with Maxima and the FAQ
(https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/wiki/FAQ/#what-lisp-implementations-will-maxima-work-with).
I'm in favor of using only the FAQ to tell people the latest status
about Lisp versions compatibility with Maxima. The FAQ is easier to keep
updated.
Unless someone has a good reason to keep the Maxima ports page active, I
could take care of removing it from the website.
> For that matter, why is the Windows version (which according to
> Sourceforge is downloaded about 8x more often than Mac and Linux
> together)
> two versions behind Mac and Linux
> ?
Nobody has sent us a compiled 5.29 or 5.30 version for Maxima. A couple
of weeks ago I spent several hours trying to compile Maxima in Windows,
following the method proposed in INSTALL.win32, but I failed. The
problem was that I could not compile GCL 2.6.8pre. The last time I
successfully compiled Maxima in Windows (v. 5.26) I used a precompiled
GCL version which is 8 years old.
Would it be acceptable to have Maxima 5.30 for Windows compiled with an
8-year old GCL version?
What was the problem with Maxima+SBCL for Windows? If I remember
correctly such combination has been released in previous versions, but
INSTALL.win32 does not tell you how to build Maxima with SBCL in Windows.
Regards,
Jaime