Hi James.
I said:
| > It would reflect very positively on Maxima itself to include wxMaxima
| > which, although not as featureful as XMaxima, has the air of
| solidity and
| > responsiveness that hardened end-users expect on Windows.
|
and James asked of me:
| I am seriously considering this proposal. What interests me is your
| point of view that XMaxima is more featureful -- I would have said the
| opposite. I really only use XMaxima for testing XMaxima, so maybe I'm
| missing something. Which XMaxima features do you find lacking in
| wxMaxima?
Without wishing to take away from the fact that wxMaxima has a much nicer
look and feel (even to the extent that I much prefer to use wxMaxima
myself!) and without ignoring the cold fact that no-one wants to maintain
Xmaxima:
1. Most notably the inbuilt web browser, which can be connected to the
interactive math educational web pages which Bill Schelter had set up to
illustrate mathematical issues (can't remmeber off hand where they were or
what his system was called was called). This was, for me, a very exciting
part of the Maxima web presence.
2. Cliff has already mentioned internationalisation of the character set as
used by at least one subscriber to this list in his teaching role.
3. Easy programmability in two senses; that it is just a Tcl script; and it
resides in our CVS repository and can be altered as we see fit.
Cheers
Mike Thomas.