Fix for $matrix (Was: "matrix([matrix([" returned with mat_function (Was: Re: Symbolic matrix power))
Subject: Fix for $matrix (Was: "matrix([matrix([" returned with mat_function (Was: Re: Symbolic matrix power))
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:23:56 +0000
On 29-10-2013 16:49, Robert Dodier wrote:
> If you are routinely rebuilding Maxima, it shouldn't be any problem to
> use SBCL. From what I know, the Windows version of SBCL works OK.
SBCL is very easy to install in Windows and it works very well, but
Maxima plots fail due to a problem with the $system command, which
attempts to launch /bin.sh in Windows and fails, as explained by David
Billinghurst on September 19th
(http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2013/034000.html)
Once the $system command can be made to work in Windows, we could have
an SBCL installer for Windows, with many advantages (higher limit for
the number of commands, UTF8 support, no 1e-8 bugs, etc)
Regards,
Jaime