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.
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.
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.
I still don't understand what the output from "File/Save expressions to
file" is meant to do, but that is quibbling in my book.
This is the least troublesome Maxima beta I've tried.
Cheers
Mike Thomas