RE: Maxima 5.9.0.9beta1



> From: Mike Thomas 
>
> Hi David/James.
>
> I just spent half an hour this evening with Dave's installer on Windows 
> 2000 Pro and earlier about 10 minutes under XP Pro.  I ran the tests, 
> plotted and calculated various examples, using the XMaxima plot window 
> and GNU Plot 4.

good

> I found no problems other than those raised by Vadim and I agree with 
> him that adding the Windows GNU Plot executables would be a boon to Maxima.

That's two votes for and one "don't care".  I am getting the message.

> It may help you to know that the Windows GCL installer sets the default 
> install path to C:\Progra~1\whatever and GCL seems not to have problems 
> with spaces on launch; details may be found in the Inno setup script in 
> the GCL windows subdirectory.  Whether this will make xmaxima launch the 
> maxima executable properly, who knows.

It used to, but I changed it last week.  Now it defaults to system_drive:\maxima
We can always change it back.

> This is the least troublesome Maxima beta I've tried.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas

Great.  It was relatively painless, now that gcl-2.6.2 builds OOTB (thanks to
Camm and Mike and the rest of the gcl team)