On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 03:19, Mike Clarkson wrote:
>
> I think I could use a few more additions in the configure/make:
>
> 1) In autoconf-variables.tcl, could you record the lisp.
What do you mean by "the lisp"? The default lisp? Maxima can be
installed with more than one lisp implementation enabled.
> 2) Is there a primordial release date somewhere that could go in
> with the version too?
No, not right now. I suppose we could add one. Right now we record the
release version and the build time.
> 3) Could you change xmaxima-local to invoke wish directly and not shell.
Done, but
> 4) Could you make the installed xmaxima (/usr/local/bin/xmaxima)
> be a simple Bourne shell script that execs wish on the
> {datadir}/xmaxima. Even something like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec wish {datadir}/xmaxima $*
I haven't done this yet. Would it be ok to make the file that was
"xmaxima" become xmaxima.tcl and live next to the installed Tkmaxima
directory?
> is fine. This will allow me to do autoloading.
>
> I made an interfaces/bin directory to start gathering the bits and
> pieces of code and knowledge that it takes to build a xmaxima
> distribution (or any other interface to maxima), that is above and
> beyond the configure and make of Maxima itself:
>
> I checked in CY's Inno install script,
> I plan to make a Makefile for things like the freewrap setup. By
> definition, there will probably never be a Makefile.am in here.
>
> We're making great progress in getting the Windows version packageable,
Great. I would like to get this to work reasonably well so that we can
release. "Reasonably well" means workable if not perfect.
> but some bad news is that xmaxima won't take spaces in filenames
> (e.g. C:/Program Files/) anytime soon - it's deep in the browser.
--Jim