Subject: proposal to make wxMaxima an installation option
From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:43:54 +0300
Robert Dodier writes:
> to follow up on the recent discussion about wxMaxima
> (http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net),
> i'd like to propose that wxMaxima be included as a Windows installation option
> so that users can choose Xmaxima or wxMaxima or both.
> i'd also like to propose that wxMaxima alone be the default option
> (i.e. what you get if you just click OK all the way through).
>
Yes.
> for linux, it is just a matter of putting a wxMaxima rpm in the SF file manager.
>
> i believe it is not necessary to change anything in maxima to
> accomodate this. this proposal solely concerns release packaging, i believe.
Not quite. There is yet another Maxima-wxMaxima integration issue.
At present wxMaxima uses its own private copy of HTML documentation
in [Help] -> [Maxima help] menu. As default GUI it should
use HTML installed with Maxima package instead.
To do this Maxima must provide HTML with some additional
index files. We already agreed with Andrej to fix the problem
together.
I also worry about Portuguese and Spanish documentation.
It would be great if wxMaxima will try to use translated
documentation (if available) in appropriate locales.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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