maxima frontends summary. (Was Re: wxmaxima development & patches: where?)

Thank you for all your replies,

Let me summarise shortly. Did I miss any frontend ?

I tried to try all the frontends that I'm aware of:

- wxmaxima, without TeX rendering ;) I'm using it right now.

- texmacs, uses TeX rendering, is very bloated and crashes
  every 5 minutes (debian squeeze, clean install). Also it seems to
  be very emacs-centered, and I dislike emacs. So I trash texmacs in
  favour of other options.

- imaxima - I am unable to find debian package. I'd like to try imaxima,
  but I prefer to avoid installing by hand without a debian package
  from http://sites.google.com/site/imaximaimath/download-and-install

- cantor (from kde-edu) - now, that is weird. The KDE website says
  that cantor is in kde-edu. But when I look at this package in
  debian repository I cannot find cantor in it. Am I blind?
  Does someone here use cantor on debian (ubuntu?) to tell what's going on?

- euler - also I'm unable to find the debian package on
  http://eumat.sourceforge.net/download.html

- lyx+maxima - this one seems promising. I'm quite experienced with
  latex, and never used lyx. I'm fine with lyx since it's just a
  latex frontend, and in fact I am looking for maxima frontend. So
  having two frontends in single one cannot hurt. I'll investigate more.

Did I miss any frontend ?

Do you have some suggestions about how to try imaxima, cantor & euler?

I guess that after 5 hours of downloading and compiling I could get
them all to run, but currently I cannot afford so much time. So if
you know that there is a package lying somewhere, or something that
could help me to do it faster, I'd be more than happy to try them
again.


Andrej Vodopivec said:     (by the date of Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:45:05 +0100)

> There is a wxmaxima project page at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/ , you can post patches at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/develop and if you have
> questions specific to wxmaxima you can use the forum at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/forums/forum/435775 .

thanks!
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Janek Kozicki                                                         |