maxima-5.29.* and imaxima



On 2013-01-02, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:

> Gentoo?s ebuild for maxima skips the version of imaxima therein
> preferring the separate imaxima package, which uses:
>
> http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Download_and_Install_files/imaxima-imath-1.0.tar.gz
>
> The fix seems to be to deprecate the separate app-emacs/imaxima package
> and install maxima?s version of imaxima.

Agreed.

Incidentally that link seems to be broken; this one works for me:

https://sites.google.com/site/imaximaimath/download-and-install/imaxima-imath-1.0.tar.gz

> Unless, of course, there is something in the other version not also in
> maximas version?

Well, comparing imaxima.el and imaxima.lisp in the tarball to the
current versions in Maxima's Git repo, I see there are some minor
differences, aside from the MLABEL/MLABLE stuff; looks like Git has the
more recent version.

best

Robert Dodier