[Bug 480039] Re: Upgrade maxima to 5.19.2

[crategus]

Some further comments, because of the reported problems about Maxima and
wxMaxima:

1.
It is no problem to compile and build Maxima or wxMaxima on Ubuntu 9.10 and the earlier version with serveal Lisp compilers. I am sure that even Maxima 5.17.1 has no problems. I think it is a problem of the Maxima debian package. Not the version of Maxima is the problem, but the package.

2. 
A look into the file list shows me that the Maxima share code (maxima-share) and the Maxima tests (maxima-tests) are distributed in two different packages.
The share code is a must to run Maxima, it is not optional, because a lot of incore functionality of Maxima needs code from the share code.
The test code (Maxima testsuite) should run without any error after installation. It is a good idea to have the testsuite in the basic distribution too and to give a hint to start the testsuite after installation.

Dieter Kaiser

-- 
Upgrade maxima to 5.19.2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480039
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs