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[Marc Lalaude-Labayle <address@hidden>]

I do agree with you for the different packages that could be offered.
But, i think that most people (understand teachers in math, physic for
example) want to write math easily and in a clean manner without
learning LaTeX.

The fact that teXmacs is a scientific workplace is clearly amazing and a
plus, if the simplest part just works (under windows of course).

What i mean, is offering a complete scientific editor (with different
fonts, netpbm to insert images ...) wich runs easily within windows.

Someone who wants to use maxima is able to run (and install) linux or
cygwin and so can manage texmacs package within windows : i am not sure,
this person is the one who really needs help at first.

regards

Marc



Le mardi 04 novembre 2008 à 11:12 +0100, Andrea Gamba a écrit :
> There are many discussions on this forum about the convenience of bundling
> texmacs with other programs (maxima, etc.) for easier installation. I think
> that the idea of having such bundles goes somehow against the good practice 
> in
> the free software world, that is of having comparatively small pieces of
> software, specialized for different jobs. On the other hand, it is well
> understandable that the user may desire to install in one shot all that is
> needed to him. I think that a simple and clean solution would be to create
> virtual deb packages containing as dependencies all the software that is
> tipically needed by typical users, similarly to the 'kde' package in Debian 
> and
> Ubuntu which, when installed, just downloads everything that is needed to 
> have
> the kde desktop running. For instance, one could have a package 
> texmacs-full or
> texmacs-maxima or texmacs-cas which has as dependencies maxima, axiom, or 
> other
> similar software.
> Now we are here speaking of installation on windows with cygwin. There too,
> there is apparently a tool 
> http://donc.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/apt-for-cygwin/
> which emulates apt-get. Apparently apt-get exists also for fink. One could 
> then
> suggest to install cygwin plus the cyg-apt tool or similar (or fink for the 
> mac
> user), and then the texmacs-full package.
> 
> By the way, texmacs 1.07 on Intrepid Ibex still does not allow functioning
> axiom sessions (see previous post), any suggestions?
> 
> Andrea