Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima? (fwd)

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Tim Abbott

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Aug 21, 2009, 5:42:29 PM8/21/09

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, William Stein wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, gsw<georg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > concerning your original question:
> > In Debian sid (==unstable currently), there are Maxima version 5.17.1,
> > and ECL version 9.6.1.
> > These versions are more recent than what currently comes with Sage.
> > But if we grade up to Maxima version 5.19.0 and ECL version 9.8.3,
> > these versions were more recent than the ones that come with Debian
> > sid. I don't know if anybody is working to update Sage in Debian
> > (currently Sage version 3.0.6 is there ...), so this might be a non-
> > issue.
> >
>
> My understanding is that nobody is working to update Sage in Debian.
> (I wish I were wrong about that fact!)

That's basically correct. I made some substantial progress on updating to
Sage 3.4.1 back in May, but have been extremely busy since then and do not
expect to find the several days of time I'd need to finish that process
anytime soon.