RE: [Aimmath-developers] changes

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

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> From: aim...@li...
> [mailto:aim...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Chris Sangwin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: AIM developers
> Subject: RE: [Aimmath-developers] changes
>
>
>
> Thank to Neil and Gustav who replied to this.
>
> There are two issues here.
>
> (1) The problem that generated the errors about too many open files have
> been fixed by Ken Monks who committed an updated file into a separate
> branch on CVS.   I'm not sure I understand why there is a separate branch
> here.  Have I done something wrong?

Hi Chris,

Being new to CVS and I didn't want to risk committing to the main
develop_2_1 branch yet, so I made a branch called KM to commit my changes
to.  I am making a lot of changes currently in trying to upgrade to Maple 9
and the new develop_2_1 branch, so I will continue to commit them to the KM
branch.  If people are happy with them we can merge the KM branch into the
develop_2_1 branch later.  I'm just playing it safe for now until I know
what I am doing with CVS.

If you want the changes in the meantime, you can just checkout the
develop_2_1 branch and then update your local copy to merge the KM branch
into it locally.  I think. :)

> (2) While I see no problem in updating our servers to Maple 7 (8 or even
> 9) I will send a general email to users asking if anyone *needs* us to
> retain back compatibility with Maple 6.   I believe we already agreed not
> to support Maple 5 in future.  Is that correct?

I guess if your poll shows that nobody needs Maple 6 there would be no
reason to bother trying to support it.  There are many nice new packages in
the newer Maple versions that make question writing and AIM coding easier,
so I think it would be beneficial to slowly move the requirements to newer
Maple versions.

ciao,
KEN
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Ken Monks - Professor of Mathematics
            University of Scranton
            Scranton, PA 18510
email: mailto:mo...@sc...
web:   http://www.scranton.edu/~monks
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