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["Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven writes:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:19:10PM -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> > On 1/10/08, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:05:46PM +0600, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > > > By the way, what do you all think - if we drop support of *really* ancient
> > > > versions of maxima (<=5.9.2), then the scripts can be greatly simplified.
> > > > This still leaves a lot of supported versions - 5.9.3 to 5.14.0. Maybe,
> > > > it's time to do this?
> > > [vdhoeven@alcazar src]$ maxima --version
> > > Maxima 5.9.0
> > >
> > > Hmm, when I will buy I need machine ;^)
> > Joris, I'm sorry, but I can't tell what you mean here.
>
> I meant, when I will buy a new machine (I must have been really tired when 
> answering).
>
> > Can you please say whether you are in favor of the suggestion to
> > drop support for versions of Maxima up to and including 5.9.2 ??
>
> At the moment not, because my criterion for what is an "old version"
> is whether I still use such a version on one of my machines.
> I think this is a reasonable criterion for (lazy) users who install
> (or get installed) what they need when buying a new computer,
> but don't change their installation afterwards.
>
> > It's up to you, but it seems like it would be beneficial to TeXmacs
> > if it did not have to be modified for each new Maxima release.
>
> Another solution might be to simply anticipate some of
> the upcoming version numbers ;^)

Jokes aside. IMHO this is really the best approach.
I maintain Maxima nad TeXmacs for ALT Linux distro for
several years. And I always build TeXmacs with tiny patch
which modifies behaviour of tm_maxima in simple way.
If Maxima version doesn't match known version tm_maxima
doesn't barf "Unknown Maxima version" but tries to start
Maxima with the latest version of interface package -
texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp at present.

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     Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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