[Aquamacs-devel] imaxima plugin in new branch

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

David,
Thanks for the feedback.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:27 AM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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".
>

The info message is just a text README file. I don't have much experience
with these installers, so I'm not sure what else is possible (html? rich
text?); will look into it.  The point of the detailed comments is to give
specifics of what's being installed where, and make it clear what items need
to me removed to fully uninstall.  I could put those details in a separate
README available alongside the package instead.

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.
>
>
I have never launched Maxima.app.  The point of using the .app bundle is
that it provides a pre-built maxima binary with all dependencies (apart from
the plotting support provided by Gnuplot).  Sorry I wasn't clear about this;
it really is just support for running the imaxima/imath/maxima modes in
emacs.  Ditto for Gnuplot.app.  Hiding them would be fine, but I still
suggest a location within /Applications/ or subfolder.  This way, it's not
hard for a user who *does* use Gnuplot.app to locate, remove, upgrade, etc.
that bundle.

--Nathaniel
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