Hi,
Sorry for not having time to get back to you earlier on this and other
posts. Unfortunately, I'm having some machine problems that keep me from
getting to some recent email.
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:32, Sam Steingold wrote:
> 1. maxima-local passes "-q" to CLISP (which suppresses the CLISP banner,
> which can be seen as unfair to the CLISP developers who thus are
> deprived credit for their work).
No offense was intended when we invoked clisp's "-q" option. I have
restored the banner (i.e., removed -q) from the maxima cvs.
> Maybe there should be an option to suppress both Maxima and CL
> banner?
An option to suppress the maxima banner would definitely be a
possiblity...
> 2. maxima-local does not pass "-norc" to CLISP (which makes CLISP load
> the user ~/.clisprc which might not be a good idea).
> It might be a good idea to let maxima-local accept an option
> "--extra-lisp-arguments" which is passed to the underlying lisp.
Do you think it would be best to add -norc by default. I see the sense
in adding a general "--extra-lisp-arguments" option to maxima. The
maxima command-line handling will get overhauled between 5.9.0 and
5.9.1. I'll add this and the "quiet" option then.
Incidently, these are problems with the maxima script itself. The
*-local scripts exist only so that developers may test the applications
without first installing them.
> 3. xmaxima-local fails:
Ugh. That is a real xmaxima-local problem. (Really, it's a problem
because xmaxima *and* xmaxima-local haven't kept up with the changes to
xmaxima.) I hadn't noticed it because I typically already have an
installed version. Thanks for the report.
I'll file it as a bug.
Best,
Jim
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James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>