Dear Philippe, Thank you for the information. Indeed, it would help a lot if at least scripts that are working for specific combinations of Mathematica & OS were made available somewhere.
As for the problems with developing a universally working script you've mentioned, I am willing to try the scripts / help debugging them with various versions (Mathematica 7 & 8 at least) on OS X (probably I could also install & try on Windows & Linux). Moreover, if someone took the task to develop such a universal script, I am willing to provide remote access to a machine with Mathematica(s) & OS X / Linux. Best, Peter. On 25.4.2012, at 11:32, Philippe Joyez wrote: > Dear Peter and Bertrand, > > Sorry to disappoint you but I'm afraid that getting a working mathematica > plugin > "out of the box" for new users is not going to happen before the summer. > However > a user with some motivation and knowledge can make it to work. Let me explain > why. > > What's broken is not Andrey's mathematica plugin code itself, it's the > one-time > script that runs the first time the user wants to connect to mathematica. That > script *compiles* the plugin code, linking it to the actual mathlink library > on > the user's system and puts the resulting executable in the user's Texmacs > directory. Since the time when Andrey wrote the script, there has been 3 major > releases of Mathematica and the added support of MacOS and Windows in Texmacs, > that all broke that installation script in various ways. > > Now, fixing the script so that texmacs would in all cases transparently > connect > to mathematica without any user intervention seems unlikely to happen for the > simple reason that a compiler may not even be available on the user's machine. > So manual installation of the (OS-dependent) toolchain would be necessary > anyway. Furthermore the new script(s) would have to handle many OSes and many > possible mathematica versions, which means someone should have access to all > (OS-mathematica version) configurations... but who would that be? > > Presently I see no solution other than providing good how-tos on the > compilation, or at best platform-specific scripts. What I posted last year in > the users' list (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.texmacs.user/7409) is > how to perform this one-time compilation in linux, which isn't really a big > deal. In Albufeira, Miguel worked out the way to do this on MacOS for > Bertrand. > If I understood correctly, it was not as easy as in linux and that should > probably be written into a howto as well. Then it would certainly be nice to > centralize these instructions at some place (the famous wiki? a forum with a > dedicated "plugins" section?) so that they could be maintained up-to date with > user contributions for new setups, new versions, etc. > > Best, > Philippe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev