I'm with William. I was pretty happy when Francois reported (or more precisely reminded me, since I think I knew and forgot) that xmaxima was available. This means that openmath plotter (like jmol, but using tcl.tk instead of java) is available too, whenever tcl/tk is installed.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:20 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
