Dear all,
I'm looking at longer term support for STACK. Would anyone object if we withdraw active testing (i.e. support) for Maxima versions before 5.38.1? We do not recommend 5.37.x anyway.
Please email me off list (C.J.Sangwin@ed.ac.uk) if this is a serious problem, and you would like to contact me privately about it.
We can't support older Maxima forever, but I want this to be a planned process!
Chris
I remember compiling the 5.38.1 binary for CentOS/Redat because there was not any other rpm version other than 5.23.1 which OU was using at time. I made an explicit post on the the build process (Chris may have it referenced in the docs). If 5.38.1 is generally available and putatively supported now, it is because it was supported by STACK at that time.
STACK appears to be big gorilla in the maxima rpm jungle. Given that it might be advisable to designate 5.38.1 as an LTS version in STACK, identify a more recent version now that would be a LTS version, and create another binary now. Eventually that binary will inhabit the backwater of stable rpm repos.