Re: [Maxima-discuss] An experimental binary of Maxima-5.40.0 on macOS

[有坂富雄 <ari...@ic...>]

Dear Loukas,

Thanks for your report, and sorry for the inconvenience.

I think you had used another version of wxMaxima.
Your wxMaxima created the initialization file.
But it is not compatible with new Maxima.app.
Because new Maxima.app works good with the default path name of Maxima.

New Maxima.app includes wxMaxima-15.04.0.
So that you can select one of two solutions:

(a) If you had used wxMaxima-15.04.0, then you should change the path name of Maxima to "maxima".
   (1) Select the menu "wxMaxima"->"Preferences..."
   (2) Select the icon "Maxima" in the window "wxMaxima configuration".
   (3) Change the string of "Maxima program" to "maxima"

(b) If you had used other version of wxMaxima, then you should remove the initialization file which were created by wxMaxima.
   (1) You can find the initialization file with the Terminal.app command
       "find $HOME/Library -name '*wxMaxima*'".
   (2) You can remove the initialization file with the Terminal.app command
       "find $HOME/Library -name '*wxMaxima*' -exec rm -Ri {} +".

By the way, you can use VTK without settings.
All of executable path settings are embedded in AppleScript launcher.
Please look at the AppleScript file in the folder "Launchers/sources".

Thanks,

Tomio Arisaka


On 2017-6-20 at 06:56, Loukas Zachilas <zac...@ut...> wrote:

> Dear Tomio,
>
> I have downloaded your latest version of Maxima 5.40.0 for MacOSX.
>
> I have preferred the large version: Maxima-5.40.0-VTK-macOS.dmg
>
> But as soon as I run it, I get in the lower-right place, on the status bar of the wxMaxima window, the following message: Maxima process terminated.
>
> I have quite big experience (I believe) with Maxima and wxMaxima.
>
> I remember that I was getting this message, when wxMaxima could not find the Maxima.app
>
> So, I opened “Preferences” and I checked that the Maxima program was right: /Applications/Maxima.app
>
> So?
>
> Where is the problem?
> Do I have to insert a path of Maxima application somewhere else? Maybe with the use of the Terminal?
>
> Does VTK demand something more?
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
> 
>
> Best regards,
>
> Loukas Zachilas
>
> Assistant Professor on Applied Mathematics
>
> Univ. of Thessaly
>
> Dept. Of Economics
>
> GREECE
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> From: 有坂富雄 <ari...@ic...>
> Date: Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 17:32
> To: Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
> Cc: "<max...@li...>" <max...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] An experimental binary of Maxima-5.40.0 on macOS
>
> 
>
> On 2017-6-18 at 15:55, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM, 有坂富雄 <ari...@ic...> wrote:
> >
> >> My Sourceforge user name is "tomio-arisaka".
> >
> > OK, terrific. I have added your user name to the list of deveopers for
> > Maxima. You should be able to upload files to the file manager now.
> > Let us know if you need more information about that.
> >
> >> But the size of the compressed disk image of new Maxima.app is large.
> >>
> >> * "Maxima-5.40.0-VTK-macOS.dmg" (449.4 MB):
> >
> > Hmm. Well, I guess that's OK. I am not aware of any limit on the size
> > of uploaded files. Does anyone else see a problem here?
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Robert Dodier
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> I have uploaded two kinds of the Maxima.app with sftp.
> One includes VTK and the other does not.
> The location is <https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/5.40.0-MacOSX/>.
> I expect the Maxima.app will run on macOS 10.6.8 or later.
> But I checked that it ran on macOS 10.6.8, 10.9.5, and 10.11.6.
>
> If something is wrong, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomio Arisaka
>