>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> writes:
Jaime> 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?
>>
Jaime> I guess that page was important some years ago when Maxima was
Jaime> undergoing changes to make it work with Common Lisp. I also do not see
Jaime> any point that page, so I vote for sending it to the trash can. We
Jaime> also have http://maxima.sourceforge.net/lisp.html which gives
Jaime> information about Lisp versions that can be used with Maxima and the
Jaime> FAQ
Jaime> (https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/wiki/FAQ/#what-lisp-implementations-will-maxima-work-with). I'm
Jaime> in favor of using only the FAQ to tell people the latest status about
Jaime> Lisp versions compatibility with Maxima. The FAQ is easier to keep
Jaime> updated.
Jaime> Unless someone has a good reason to keep the Maxima ports page active,
Jaime> I could take care of removing it from the website.
Instead of being deleted, can it be moved somewhere less prominent.
I find history is always nice to have to go back and see how things
came to be. We don't have to keep it up-to-date though. Just mark it
as historical info that isn't updated.
Ray