Subject: I need help with xmaxima, particularly on windows
From: James Amundson
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:26:30 -0600
The biggest obstacle to releasing maxima 5.9.1 is xmaxima. In 5.9.0,
maxima and xmaxima were significantly intertwined. I have now modified
maxima so that xmaxima can interface to it in a significantly simpler
way, but I am having trouble working out the kinks on the xmaxima side,
particularly on windows. I really don't know how to debug a Tcl
application on windows. If I continue working on the problem at the rate
I am currently working, I think we can expect 5.9.1 in about 2020.
One option at this point is to simply dump xmaxima. In 5.9.0 xmaxima was
the only real way to get a working maxima on windows. Now, however, we
have a command-line version of maxima that is independent of any
unix-emulation utilities. Although I would like to see us have a decent
GUI frontend for maxima in the future, I think the command-line
application is the best thing we have right now.
If there is some love for xmaxima out there, now would be the time to
say so.
--Jim