>>>>> "jiun" == jiun bookworm <thebookworm101 at gmail.com> writes:
jiun> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
jaime> Oh
jaime> well, you are free to ignore
jaime> the simple solution I gave
jaime> you.
jiun> Jaime,
jiun> its a good solution, dont get me wrong,? but im trying to
jiun> build a multiuser setup that keeps thing as "maxima-ish" as
jiun> possible, (no functions that i'v made up) and reduce user
jiun> "astonishment" on the effect of common commands.
Last thing first: What kind of user "astonishment" do you see? I
think we would like to know what that is.
Now for the first thing. If you want to keep things as "maxima-ish"
as possible, then I think you're doing a disservice by having a daemon
rename the plot output files. I think Jaime's solution is the correct
"maxima-ish" solution. Or if you're going to hack on a multiuser
setup, have each user's maxima-init file load a system init file where
you can implement whatever functions you think all users would need.
(Kind of like how shell init files typically work.) At least in this
way, the changes are discoverable. Your daemon approach will be
impossible to discover how or why it's done. Something thatjust
magically changes the names of files out from underneath users is very
odd.
Ray