On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:15 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 24, 12:00 pm, "Arnaud Bergeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/6/24 didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > > Hi, > >> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Michael Abshoff >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I am not sure if there is any harm if Maxima builds it. When woulds >> >> building >> >> xmaxima cause a problem? >> >> > I'm sure it doesn't; the issue is that sage builds something behind >> > your back, so you won't find it if you're not looking for it. Also, >> > the behavior is not consistent since this seems to depend the user's >> > machine (ie tk vs non-tk). >> >> > didier >> >> There is harm when building a binary package. If the user making the >> binary has tk on his computer then xmaxima will be part of the binary >> package and will fail miserably on the computers of others that don't >> have tk. > > Sure, but xmaxima is not used by Sage directly. If there is a config > option to disable its build I am more than happy to disable building > it, but going into Makefile.in seems a little too invasive for my > taste. If it cannot be disabled we should file a bug report upstream. >
-1 I'm very much against disabling building xmaxima. I really don't get at all how you can argue against building xmaxima. You might as well argue against building Python bindings for tcl/tk, and all other gui bindings for Sage components. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
