On 02/18/2012 08:54 AM, Henry Baker wrote:
> Is Maxima available as a "portable" app for Windows ?
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> "Portable" apps don't mess with the Registry, and they require only a limited number of read-only and read-write file locations.
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> This allows the apps to live on a flash memory USB drive and be executed on a PC _without having to install the app on the PC itself_.
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> In normal practise, the app is "installed" on the USB drive, and then merely inserted into the PC. The PC can then merely execute the app directly from the USB drive; all of the usual information that the app needs is on the USB drive, and any databases it needs are also on the USB drive.
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> A Portable Maxima could be carried around on a USB drive, along with all of your own Maxima programs and data, which would allow you to run Maxima on nearly any PC that you have access to -- without having to "install" Maxima on that PC. Thus, if someone has a high performance PC& your home PC is too wimpy, you can plug your Maxima into the more powerful PC for a particularly difficult computation.
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> More information here:
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> http://portableapps.com/
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> http://portableapps.com/development
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Would a web interface satisfy your needs?
http://www.vroomlab.com:8081/nhome/#
I haven't really used it for anything of any complexity, but it does
mention maxima is used.