Re: [Maxima-discuss] Windows package, was: Maxima 5.33.0 release

[Leo B. <l_b...@us...>]

David Billinghurst <dbm...@gm...> writes:

> I will think about this suggestion.  Obviously there is a problem, and Martin's
> patch is simple and seems sensible.  I just need to consider side effects.
>
> David

David, If I understand, the problem that Martin is trying to fix is due
to the change in the draw package's policy--it now compiles when first
loaded.

If I understand Martin's proposal to be to make version-specific user
directories, then I do not like it. I think that changing the user
directory on a per version basis is disruptive to the user. I think a
better solution would be to have a binary directory inside of the user
directory (on windows), and inside the binary directory there could be
versioned subdirectories.

While this may fix the problem for windows users whose maxima version
and lisp version move in parallel, it is not a general solution.

Leo

>
>
> On 29/04/2014 12:42 AM, Martin Kraska wrote:
>
>
>     I repeat the proposal to specify version-specific user dirs, e.g. by
>     changing line 31 in maxima.bat to
>
>      
>
>     if "%MAXIMA_USERDIR%" == "" set MAXIMA_USERDIR=%USERPROFILE%\
>     maxima%version%
>
>      
>
>     Access to the draw package from within SMath Studio didn?t work for Maxima
>     newer than 5.31.1-1. Fortunately, the 5.33.0 installers by David work. Here
>     is an example: http://en.smath.info/forum/yaf_postsm12832_Maxima.aspx#
>     post12832
>
>      
>
>     Best regards, Martin Kraska
>
>      
>
>     Von: Gunter Königsmann [mailto:gu...@pe...]
>     Gesendet: Montag, 28. April 2014 11:28
>     An: Evgeniy Maevskiy; max...@li...
>     Betreff: Re: [Maxima-discuss] Windows package, was: Maxima 5.33.0 release
>
>      
>
>     I don't know if that is related. But I had the opposite problem: after
>     installing 5.33.0.1 draw worked. After downgrading to the official version
>     it stopped to work.
>     The Fix was: deleting everything in maxima_userdir.
>
>     Perhaps installing the new installer hybritized something there.
>
>      
>
>     On 6. April 2014 19:31:27 MESZ, Evgeniy Maevskiy <ema...@e-...>
>     wrote:
>
>     Hello, List!
>
>     On my Windows XP SP3 I have the next problem with Maxima-5.33.0.1,
>     package draw:
>
>     load("draw");
>
>     output:
>
>     ;    - Source file
>     ;      /Maxima-5.33.0.1/share/maxima/5.33.0/share/draw/grcommon.lisp and
>     ;      binary file
>     ;      D:/Maxima-5.33.0.1/user/binary/binary-gcl/share/draw/grcommon.o not
>     ;      found, not loading.
>     loadfile: failed to load
>     D:/Maxima-5.33.0.1/share/maxima/5.33.0/share/draw/draw.lisp
>       -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
>
>
>     06.04.2014 3:31, David Billinghurst ?????:
>
>      On 5/04/2014 10:57 AM, David Billinghurst wrote:
>
>      On 5/04/2014 5:52 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>
>      On 2014-04-04, David Billinghurst <dbm...@gm...> wrote:
>
>      There is a new windows installer available at
>      http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.33.0.exe
>
>      Thanks, David. For the record, I installed it on my Windows Vista
>      laptop and it mostly works except that it runs into an error
>      whenever the Lisp compiler is invoked -- something about CreateProgram
>      or something like that. That error is provoked several times during
>      the test suite.
>
>      OK.  There is a new windows installer
>      http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.33.0.1.exe
>
>      This is built the classic way.  I worked around the makeinfo problem
>      using a wrapper script that calls cygwin makeinfo.  Not pretty, but it
>      works for me right now.
>
>      Postscript plotting is still broken.
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