> The browser Edit menu in xmaxima browser gives you a number of options
> that allows you to specify which backend process you want to send
> the selection to {mark for eval ...} I think this was a part of WFS's
> concept of OpenMath,
This is part of NetMath of WFS, OpenMath is supposed to be a standard to
represent mathematical objects, to allow to exchange them between CAS,
http://monet.nag.co.uk/cocoon/openmath/society/index.html
>From some comments at Lyon's workshop, it appears to be insufficiently developed
to be useful right now?
> here the frontend UI works for many backends.
> Needless to say, supporting this clutters the xmaxima code.
>
> Does anyone use this (I'm not sure it actually works)?
Yes it does actually work, at least as one can see from the examples online. The
jobs are sent to some Linux machines at utexas, which give answers for maxima,
pari and gap.
> Does anyone
> mind if I at least remove the browser Edit menu, and possibly
> discontinue support for the "open" part of the interface? Targeting
> specifically on maxima may help simplify things.
I think it was a great idea, especially for cross-checking results with different
CAS, probably also as an introduction to CAS in general, as nothing needs to be
installed on the user's machine. It would be a pity to loose that, but I am not
doing the work:-) And I suppose it requires also maintainance on machines at
Texas Univ. Will it continue? Would it be difficult to extract the code specific
to NetMath, so that it can be added as a plug-in?
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