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["Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden>]

Andrey G. Grozin writes:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
>
> > Since Maxima 5.9.2 was recently released it
> > would be great to have TeXmacs compatible with
> > new Maxima version.  On Unix platform everything
> > is just fine - TeXmacs support both Maxima 5.9.1
> > and 5.9.2 out of the box since version 1.0.5.
> > But WinTeXmacs-1.0.5 build is restricted to
> > Maxima 5.9.1 only.  I beg to update WinTeXmacs
> > build to support Maxima 5.9.2.  As far as I understand
> > required modification to WinTeXmacs is simple.
>
> This would be great. Can you try?
>
> I have no Windows in sight. When I tried to port the
> TeXmacs-maxima interface on a friend's computer, I could
> achieve nothing. How do you port sh scripts full of grep,
> sed etc. to Windows? How do you debug pipe communications
> without tee? What to use instead of strace when things go
> wrong?

Sorry I didn't make myself clear enough - I don't suggest
to port on Windows maxima_detect.  It can be done especially
taking into account that on Windows we have only few
Maxima versions to support - gcl 5.9.0, 5.9.1, 5.9.2.

But why be so fixed on fully automatic version control?
After all even detection of Maxima presence in Windows
is only half-automated.  Yes WinTeXmacs creates
pluginpaths.txt automatically and result is OK in most
cases but not always.  It is _recommended_ to fix it
manually if something goes wrong.  So I suggest

1. Make Maxima 5.9.2 default
2. Let the user determine Maxima version either via
some menu option or configuration file.


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     Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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