Dear sage-devel, As David Kirkby pointed out, we have been working on upgrading ECL to version 9.8.4 and Maxima to version 5.19.1. There are several reasons to want these upgrades: (a) the current Maxima in Sage is 5.16.3, which is basically one year old; (b) the current ECL and Maxima do not build on Solaris, whereas the upgraded versions do.
I believe that we sorted out all the problems coming up in upgrading the spkg's, and it would be great if someone could review these. The relevant tickets are http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6564 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6699 Here are the steps involved in trying this out: 1. sage -f http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/ecl-9.8.4.spkg 2. sage -f http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/maxima-5.19.1.p0.spkg 3. apply the patch maxima_doctests.patch from ticket 6699 4. enjoy! Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
