From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
>>>2. Can we use gnuplot 4.0 as default plot routine?
>>>It seems that we are permitted to package prebuilt
>>>gnuplot executables with Maxima. I know that Windows
>>>port of Octave does this.
>>
>> I am open to suggestions here. I deliberately overrode
>> the default plotting application so that xmaxima plotting
>> works. Have a look at the final line in
>> share/maxima/5.9.0.9beta1/share/maxima-init.lisp. If you
>> delete that line then plotting will default to gnuplot.
>>
> I've just copied wgnuplot.exe (wgnuplot.hlp and wgnuplot.mnu
> may worth including too) into maxima /bin directory and
> gnuplot plotting works fine with both xmaxima.exe and
>maxima.bat.
Thanks for testing this.
My feeling is that the windows installers is already to big.
I would prefer to leave things as they are but provide clear
instructions on how to set up gnuplot as the default.
However, I don't have strong feelings either way and will
happily implement the concencus decision.
>>>3. It desirable to have access to maxima not only via
>>>xmaxima.exe graphic shell but as simple console
>>>application.
>>
>> This will work if you edit bin/maxima.bat and change
>> the line "set prefix=...." to your installation directory.
>> I tried to this with the installer, but I could not
>> find a robust solution.
>>
>>
>
>Actually it is necessary to "set maxima_prefix=<installation dir>"
>and maxima.bat will works fine including describe and load commands.
>I'm unfamiliar with inno setup installer but can it perform
>such substitution for <installation dir> during installation
>automatically?
I am not very familiar with InnoSetup either :-)
To date, I have not been able to do automatic substitution using InnoSetup.
I have a DOS .bat file "solution" but it isn't robust. I have also
tried including sed in the package and using that, but hit some issues
with line termination characters. We must have DOS line termination
in .bat files on Windows 95.