TeXmacs and maxima-5.14.0



On Jan 8, 2008 9:05 AM, Andrey G. Grozin <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su> wrote:

> In order to run maxima-5.14.0 from TeXmacs, you should apply the following
> trivial patch.
>
> Those who already have TeXmacs installed can just edit 2 scripts,
> maxima_detect and tm_maxima (they usually live in
> /usr/libexec/TeXmacs/bin/). You don't need to recompile anything.

Is there a way to make TeXmacs detect any version of Maxima?
It seems troublesome to have to modify TeXmacs for each Maxima release.

> By the way, what do you all think - if we drop support of *really* ancient
> versions of maxima (<=5.9.2), then the scripts can be greatly simplified.
> This still leaves a lot of supported versions - 5.9.3 to 5.14.0. Maybe,
> it's time to do this?

OK by me, but I rarely use TeXmacs.

Thanks a lot for working on TeXmacs, I appreciate it.

Robert