Hmm. I haven't debugged MathDrag'n using more recent releases of Maxima in
any OS, being otherwise busy. So my questions are two-fold:
(1) does it work stand-alone on OSX? I've had at least one friend use it on
OSX with Mathematica without any problems, but I just want to be certain,
and
(2) what are the exceptions being thrown and after which operations does it
freeze? Not all operations use Maxima, so it could be that *any* Maxima
access could cause it to freeze. Also, these may be known problems that
I've solved in unreleased versions (see above bit about being busy.)
On 9/27/06, Ted Dunning <ted.dunning at gmail.com> wrote:
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> James Hart <jamesahart79 <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> > ... My basic question is: what do I have to do to get a console version
> > of Maxima onto OSX?
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> I used darwin ports to install maxima. It took one command to verify that
> ports
> knew about maxima and one more to install it. The ports system downloaded
> sbcl,
> installed it, downloaded maxima, ran a lengthy install process and saved a
> core
> file.
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> Interestingly, the reason that I was doing this was to try out
> Mathdragn. It is
> a very appealing system that has the potential to remedy the lack of
> control
> that is such a problem with CAS systems. Even without a math kernel
> attached it
> can be used for some very nice things.
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> Unfortunately, I can't get it to talk to my new maxima. The easiest
> problem was
> that mathdragn wanted 5.9.1 and I have 5.9.3. Once that is solved, I had
> other
> exceptions that leave the UI in a non-responsive state.
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