[Aimmath-developers] towards a beta release

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Dear All,

we are close to releasing the first beta.

It now turns out that Ken's modifications and Alex's modifications to the
servlet do not work well together. So AiM 3.0 beta will be released with
Alex's modified servlet. Ken's servlet will be offered as an extra download.

Neil at some point committed code to CVS that assumed that the kill program
is there. So even though we don't use Ken's servlet at the moment we
nevertheless include the code looking for the kill progam and process.exe in
the windows case.

Not using Ken's servlet removes the need to have two separate releases for
windows and linux. The branch "windows" will not be used for the release.

I have zipped up the head branch and posted it at
http://aimmath.sourceforge.net/aim.zip. Could you please test this release?
I have tested the installation on a clean Windows 2000 machine.

There is one thing that still needs to be done before we can release this as
a beta to the public: installation instructions for linux and OS X need to
be written. Any volunteers?

You will notice that I changed the installation instructions for Windows a
bit. Installation is now done through a Maple worksheet AutoConfWin.mws
rather than through AutoConf.mpl. This is because I can still remember that
when I first installed AiM I had some difficulties figuring out how to start
a command line maple in the correct directory (maple was not in my path).
Every windows user should be able to open a maple worksheet however.

Please continue to commit changes to the head branch. The beta will always
be based on the latest version in CVS.

I think we should release the first beta as soon as someone has written
installation instructions for linux and has tested them.

Gustav