Ray,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
>
maybe your right, the point i was trying to get across (and i seem to have
failed to do that successfully) is that i did not want users to have to
learn new custom commands,
> 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.
>
yes this is true for a desktop application, but if its on a remote machine
and its accessed over a medium like a browser (my intention), then i can
send the image to the browser as soon as its written to file and preserve
the norm of viewing an image right after running the command, this is my
main concern-- and the source of my seemingly misinformed choice of words
:).
Jiun
>
> Ray
>
>
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