Subject: Help to get started with the code of Maxima
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:02:11 +0100
Richard Fateman <fateman at gmail.com> writes:
> in addition to setting the package, I would like to point out that it
> is generally unnecessary for you to compile maxima. You should be able
> to download a binary executable from sourceforge for linux, windows,
> mac, etc.
Yes, but it should be trivial to compile the source on any Unixy
system. On my laptop it takes maybe 10 minutes. I don't really see the
value in driving people away from the source, especially when they are
interested in getting involved with how Maxima works.
Rupert
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