On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:53:17AM +0400, Vadim wrote: > While being here, I found very bad piece of code, however: > > inside /usr/libexec/TeXmacs/bin/ both maxima_detect and tm_maxima contain: > > PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Maxima-5.9.2/bin:$PATH" > PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Maxima-5.9.3/bin:$PATH" > export PATH > > there is also a line > CYGWIN_ROOT="C:\cygwin" > which is just wrong escaping sequence. > > IMO such concrete paths from single person, executing on every PC, is > simply wrong, and just removing these obsolete lines will simply improve > things. > > Yet selecting the path c:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.2 for maxima > installation is simply stupid.
Yes, all this was a dirty hack to get Maxima working on Windows with Cygwin. I completely agree that all this should be improved. > Should I send fixer patch for this problem? Yes please; if you can find out a clean way to support Maxima under Cygwin, then we are very much interested. Best wishes, Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
