Virtual Machine: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/DoyenCD (Axiom Gold)
On 6/18/07, Alasdair McAndrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Martin, as always, for your unstinting and generous help. What then, in your estimation, are the minimal requirements (virtual machine, X server, whatever) to run a complete Axiom - including graphics and HyperDoc - on windows? Thanks, Alasdair On 18 Jun 2007 08:24:33 +0200, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alasdair McAndrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > 1) What is the current state of using HyperDoc (or any other sort of help > > browser) under windows - in particular with Axiom-0.1.4? > > * Out of the box there is nothing. > > * There is an experimental port by Tim Daly, with the important drawback that > there is no connection to Axiom, i.e., browse does *not* work > > * There is the possibility of running axiom within a virtual machine, as > proposed by Bill Page and Alfredo Portes. I'd recommend that one. This is > also the only way to get graphics on windows. Furthermore, if you are > interested in combinatorics, Polymake and therefore my Polymake-wrapper only > works on linux, too. Together with axiom.el and SPADEDIT for gnu emacs this > makes quite a usable environment even for windows users. (After clicking on > gnu emacs, they just need to press "Alt" then "x", type "axiom" and > everything should work. > > * There is the possibly half working hyperdoc replacement by myself, which > needs an axiom process dedicated for documentation -- but which you can run > in the background, so you won't even notice. So far it only can browse > operations, and it's not really tested on windows. Even if it is not that > much interesting for production work at the moment, I'd urge you to try it > and send me your experiences. > > > 2) If I inadvertently quit HyperDoc while running Axiom, I can restart it > > with )hd. But )hd doesn't provide a socket connection; this new HyperDoc is > > "not connected to Axiom". Is there any way of starting a "connected" > > HyperDoc from an already-running Axiom? > > No, but I'd love to see a fix for that bug, too. > > All the best, > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
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