Re: [Texmacs-dev] Mathematica Plugin

[Peter Rapčan]

Dear Philippe,

Thank you for the information. Indeed, it would help a lot if at least scripts 
that are working for specific combinations of Mathematica & OS were made 
available somewhere. 

As for the problems with developing a universally working script you've 
mentioned, I am willing to try the scripts / help debugging them with various 
versions (Mathematica 7 & 8 at least) on OS X (probably I could also install & 
try on Windows & Linux). Moreover, if someone took the task to develop such a 
universal script, I am willing to provide remote access to a machine with 
Mathematica(s) & OS X / Linux.

Best,
Peter.


On 25.4.2012, at 11:32, Philippe Joyez wrote:

> Dear Peter and Bertrand,
> 
> Sorry to disappoint you but I'm afraid that getting a working mathematica 
> plugin
> "out of the box" for new users is not going to happen before the summer. 
> However
> a user with some motivation and knowledge can make it to work. Let me explain
> why.
> 
> What's broken is not Andrey's mathematica plugin code itself, it's the 
> one-time
> script that runs the first time the user wants to connect to mathematica. That
> script *compiles* the plugin code, linking it to the actual mathlink library 
> on
> the user's system and puts the resulting executable in the user's Texmacs
> directory. Since the time when Andrey wrote the script, there has been 3 major
> releases of Mathematica and the added support of MacOS and Windows in Texmacs,
> that all broke that installation script in various ways.
> 
> Now, fixing the script so that texmacs would in all cases transparently 
> connect
> to mathematica without any user intervention seems unlikely to happen for the
> simple reason that a compiler may not even be available on the user's machine.
> So manual installation of the (OS-dependent) toolchain would be necessary
> anyway. Furthermore the new script(s) would have to handle many OSes and many
> possible mathematica versions, which means someone should have access to all
> (OS-mathematica version) configurations... but who would that be?
> 
> Presently I see no solution other than providing good how-tos on the
> compilation, or at best platform-specific scripts. What I posted last year in
> the users' list (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.texmacs.user/7409) is
> how to perform this one-time compilation in linux, which isn't really a big
> deal. In Albufeira, Miguel worked out the way to do this on MacOS for 
> Bertrand.
> If I understood correctly, it was not as easy as in linux and that should
> probably be written into a howto as well. Then it would certainly be nice to
> centralize these instructions at some place (the famous wiki? a forum with a
> dedicated "plugins" section?) so that they could be maintained up-to date with
> user contributions for new setups, new versions, etc. 
> 
> Best,
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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