A decision needs to be made about updating Maxima. First a few facts.
* The version of Maxima (5.16.3) in Sage is quite old. * The version of ECL (9.4.1) in Sage is quite old. * The old ECL 9.4.1 will not build on Solaris with a SPARC processor. * The updated ECL will not work with the old Maxima due to a bug in the old Maxima. * I've created packages for *almost* the latest versions of ECL and Maxima. http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/ecl-9.8.3/ http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/maxima-5.19.0/ Both have had an updates in the last week. I can easily update these, but don't wish to waste my time unless these are likely to get put into Sage. (The updates in both cases are minor anyway). I've created trac tickets update ECL http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6564 update Maxima http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6699 Others have tested these and find the .spkg's work, but the new maxima creates many doctest failures. One very nice one is this: sage: integral( exp(-x^2)*ln(x), x, 0, oo) Expected: integrate(e^(-x^2)*log(x), x, 0, +Infinity) Got: -1/4*(euler_gamma + 2*log(2))*sqrt(pi) Another less nice one is this: sage: 'gcd' in m.trait_names() Expected: True Got: False This is clearly going to need some work by different people. So a decision needs to be made really on whether an update takes place. Otherwise, there is no point people wasting time re-writing the doctests and any other changes that are necessary. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
