[LON-CAPA-admin] Maxima versions (5.11.0, 5.12.0)

[Stefan Bisitz]

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> > What maxima version can I expect to be installed by LON-CAPA?
> 
> Either 5.11.0 or 5.12.0 depending on the distribution being run on the
> machine (Currently Redhat Entriprise 4 machines should be running
> 5.12.0 all other supported distributions should be running 5.11.0. And
> unsupported Fedora 4 appears to be running 5.9.3)

Hm, old server (SLES9): 5.11.0, new server (FC5): 5.12.0. LON-CAPA (or
the YaST/yum update?) initiated the installation of those maxima
versions. I can't see any issues at the moment but was wondering about
the different versions.


> the UPDATE script only modifies files that were made by LON-CAPA, all
> software LON-CAPA depends on are kept updated through the standard RPM
> updating machanism of the distribution that you are using.

Ok, it's good that you confirmed that. This could be the reason why the
old development version of maxima (5.9.2) was kept running on our server
after installing the first offical LON-CAPA release with maxima, though
installing the new LON-CAPA version caused an automated installation of
maxima 5.11.0 on that server.


> Is there a reason we should move all distributions forward to 5.12.0?

Besides the things you discussed with Peter (string library), I can't
see any reason at the moment. Thanks for the background information.

Stefan Bisitz