Re: [Texmacs-dev] can't do "insert session" in texmacs

[Joris van der Hoeven]

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