[Aquamacs-devel] imaxima plugin in new branch

[David Reitter]

 I haven't gotten further than installing it.  So far, I have a few comments about that:

The installer's info message is un-mac like.  Font too small (over the water), and the "====" shouldn't be there either... Linkify links if possible.  The comment about /etc/paths.d should be more like "adds the appropriate directories to your PATH environment variable".

Starting Maxima does weird things.  The app seems to quit immediately, launches Terminal (even though I prefer iTerm).  This may be intended, but...

Since we discussed this earlier - perhaps I misunderstood the purpose of Maxima.app.  Do we want Maxima.app?  Or would Emacs provide the interface, and starting Maxima.app should really fire up Emacs and iMaxima?  Is Maxima.app intended to be run by users?  If this is not the normal way, we could possibly hide it away.  Otherwise, if users want it and that's what it does, OK.


- D


On Jul 14, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:

> I'd appreciate a few testers for the imaxima plugin, please.  (It's been just over a year since David's email of 7/1/2009 indicating that there was interest for such a plugin.  Let's test and make it available.)
> 
> For anyone interested, please:
> - download the pre-packaged installer (link below) or build from the plugins/imaxima git branch
> - install; new files & directories should be
>      /Applications/Maxima.app
>      /Applications/Gnuplot.app
>      /etc/paths.d/aquamacs-imaxima
>      /Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/imaxima/
> - check that permissions of the installed files look OK -- e.g. nothing retains my ownership  ("nathaniel")
> - Launch/restart aquamacs and follow a few of the tutorial items for imaxima and imath, listed at http://sites.google.com/site/imaximaimath/ ; in particular test
>      inline math formulas
>      inline plotting (e.g. wxplot2d())
>      non-inline plotting (e.g. plot2d())
>      converting between maxima and typeset input in imath-mode
> 
> Let me know how it goes!
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathaniel
> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nathaniel Cunningham <nathaniel.cunningham at gmail.com> wrote:
> For those who don't want to build the plugin from the git branch--
> 
> Here's the full .mpkg for you to test.  The installer indicates what will be installed where. 
> 
> The file 'imaxima-plugin_2010-07-07.mpkg.zip' (26.3 MB) is available for download at
> <http://dropbox.unl.edu/uploads/20100716/60286954080ddb28/imaxima-plugin_2010-07-07.mpkg.zip>
> for the next 7 days.
> It will be removed after Friday, July 16, 2010.
> 
> --Nathaniel
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Nathaniel Cunningham <nathaniel.cunningham at gmail.com> wrote:
> The imaxima plugin is ready for testing.  It lives in a new (otherwise empty) git branch, plugins/imaxima.
> 
> make-imaxima should build a .mpkg installer.  Please test!
> 
> --Nathaniel
> 
> 
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