[Aquamacs-devel] imaxima installation: progress toward plugin

Frédéric Dupont Frederic.Dupont at univ-brest.fr
Thu Jul 1 15:46:15 UTC 2010


Hi,
It works out a the box for me.

frederic

Le 30 juin 2010 à 23:06, Nathaniel Cunningham a écrit :

> Linked below is a working Imaxima plugin installer, built with Package Maker.  Would you mind trying it out?  Next I'll settle the user/group question, and figure out how to do an automatic build using packagemaker via Makefile.
> 
> I adapted the MacPorts postflight script to back up and modify user's .profile/.bash_profile/.bash_login/.tcshrc/.cshrc as appropriate, if $PATH needs to be appended -- so you might want to back up your profile ahead of time just in case.  (I have tested it though, and it works fine for me.)
> 
> Once you've installed and (re-)launched Aquamacs, try the following to test imaxima (which does require that you already have LaTeX installed):
> M-x load-library [RET] imaxima [RET]
> M-x imaxima [RET]
> ... and at the imaxima command line:
> integrate(f(x),x,minf,inf); [RET]
> wxplot2d([x,x*sin(3*x)],[x,-5,5]); [RET]
> 
> Let me know if this works!
> 
> --Nathaniel
> 
> The file 'Aquamacs-imaxima-2010-06-30.mpkg.tar.gz' (26.6 MB) is available for download at
> http://dropbox.unl.edu/uploads/20100707/8ce8ac9d8d8a9d2b/Aquamacs-imaxima-2010-06-30.mpkg.tar.gz
> for the next 7 days.
> It will be removed after Wednesday, July  7, 2010.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:
> >> Second, I recommend making a Make file rather than writing a shell script.  This has been the evolution of the build process in Aquamacs as well.
> >
> > OK, I have Package Maker installing the necessary files; now I need to append to $PATH, and potentially tweak permissions.  Are you saying I can do these with a Make file included in the package, rather than preflight/postflight shell scripts?
> 
> No.  Use Makefiles to construct the package, using the package maker binary.
> Do not use anything that can't be done automatically.
> 
> > The user/group of the SLIME directory and its contents after I install are mine (nathaniel, staff).  Currently, my imaxima/ directory in /Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/ is getting id set as (root, admin), but the contents are still (nathaniel, staff).  I assume everything should be the same; is (root, admin) or personal user/group preferable?
> 
> I don't think you want to install as root, but I'm not sure.  You could use personal user and staff or wheel as group.   But please verify by checking other files in the /Library/AppSupport hierarchy.
> 
> - D
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