Re: [Maxima-discuss] Announcing 5.47.0

[Wolfgang D. <wol...@da...>]

Am 03.06.23 um 21:23 schrieb Viktor T. Toth:
> Dear Wolfgang,
> 
> Well, I suppose it depends on how much trouble it is to build a
> 32-bit installer.

Building? No trouble at all. As I have everything, which is needed for 
builing the installer on my PC: Entering 3 command line commands and 
wait a few minutes. Well, 4 commands for a signed installer.


But as the installer does not only contain Maxima, but also other
projects, on which Maxima depends, the 32-bit version it is usually *NOT
SO GOOD* as the 64-bit installer.
It contains some older versions of the bundled third party programs. In
the current installer e.g. Gnuplot.

Their last 32-bit Windows installer (5.2.7) was published 2019 - and as
I include it, it is much older as for the 64-bit Maxima installer.
Well - I could try, if I can crosscompile it too...


And - of course - I do some manual testing before I upload an installer 
to Sourceforge:
install it on Win11 and/or Win10, check, that it installs and uninstalls
cleanly afterwards, check, that it works with CLISP and SBCL, check that
command line Maxima, XMaxima and wxMaxima works, etc.
*That* needs some time.

But I do such tests occasionally with the current development version
(there too with ABCL as a third Lisp), so I would recognize severe
issues with the windows installer during the development process (of 
Maxima and wxMaxima).

Best regards, Wolfgang