Re: recent versions

I find the recent improvements in the documentation of Axiom of paramount
importance in trying to understand this complex system. In this regards, I
have just read about the new )describe command and found it quite interesting.

Anyways, I have found in another of your posts a link to a Debian binary for
the November 2009 version. I have downloaded it already but not installed yet.
Hopefully it will work in Debian Etch. Will be there an Ubuntu binary for this
(or latter) version? (if it were an issue of priorities, I would prefer it to
an updated download page).

Of course, it would be wonderful if the maintainer of the Axiom package in
Debian and Ubuntu distributions could keep it updated, ideally in sync
with the 2-month (or whatever) period source releases. See e.g.:

http://packages.debian.org/etch/math/axiom

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/math/axiom

This package seems stuck because of bugs and other issues.

Alejandro






On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Tim Daly wrote:

> Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
>> The download page (http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html) 
>> has links for downloading Axiom versions up to May 2009. Where are the more 
>> recent versions?
>> 
>> Regards, Alejandro Jakubi
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> I did not create them. I will put it on the list to do.
> You would be amazed how little time there is between releases
> if you do them every 2 months.
>
> The effort has been mostly removing boot and converging the
> interpreter into book volume 5. This doesn't change the user
> functionality (although I've introduced )debug and )describe).
> From my point of view the effort is continuous but I have
> committed to time-boxed Axiom releases every 2 months.
>
> There is a long thread (pre-fork) about the importance of doing
> time-boxed releases every 2 months.
>
> Tim
>