> 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)