Info on how to package a package?



Hello Goran, you wrote:

> I have written a small Maxima package for analysis
> of teleoperation systems (a kind of force-feedback robots)
> and I am currently struggling on how to package it.
>
> It is a set of about 10 Maxima files, and currently
> I just copy them into the share folder, but that
> feels a bit inadequate.
> 
> I guess that the installer should make a new folder under
> share and add it to the search path. 

Maxima does not enforce any packaging requirements, for
better or worse, so creating a new package is pretty 
simple. You already have figured it out: create a new folder,
copy files there, add folder to file_search_maxima and/or
file_search_lisp.

The new folder can be anywhere on the system -- under
the main Maxima folder, in a system folder, or in a user
folder. By convention, packages distributed with Maxima
are in the maxima/share folder.

Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier


		
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