-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/18/11 2:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/18/11 12:35 PM, Woody Greene wrote: >> Hi. > > > Forwarding your rant on to the developer list, because all I'm > responsible for is wxmaxima, maxima and sbcl-maxima. > >> I've been trying to bring up wxMaxima - and as I find it's >> separately necessary (!!) Maxima. For my now ancient 2002 Mac >> Quicksilver. I really do want to do some algebra and calculus on >> the machine, any available machine, and would rather use this >> one than go buy Windows or set up another Linux disk on this >> one. > >> I did set up a Linux distribution some time ago on this machine, >> and probably even saved the disk. That might be the easier way >> to go. > > >> My suggestions for improvement are these, and they apply to . >> Fink, . Fink Master, . the Package system in general, . and the >> package relationship between wxmaxima and maxima. > >> 1. Make the damned thing - using Fink Master to set up wxMaxima >> (Plus Maxima, without which there is nothing) work right the >> first time. > > What is "Fink Master"? > > maxima has worked fine for me on clean system tests from 10.4 -> > 10.6. >
Following up, I was able to install wxmaxima and maxima on clean Fink distributions (stable and unstable trees) on 10.4 without any errors, so it does "work right the first time". It's impossible to make our builds bullet-proof against random stuff that users have installed, particularly in /usr/local, or worse yet, /usr; all we can do is make our build process internally consistent. There is an unofficial binary distribution for 10.4: http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions/ "Unofficial" means "we don't control it, so don't ask us about outages". Since it's in Japan, there may still be down time. <snip> - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk54irEACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8zAwCfbFioTue30ovIoAoa+S/FYSbJ CxMAoJx3JQTsvrtNkhI2fdvb+eQH5CZU =Hg5l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
