I think wxMaxima came up on the gentoo-science list; there may already be a request for an ebuild and someone may even have done it. Meanwhile, ordinary Maxima, including the standard X interface, is already in Portage. So are emacs, xemacs and texmacs, all of which provide a user-friendly interface to Maxima. I personally use it from texmacs, because it formats the results in highly-readable mathematical form, rather than the "ASCII art" format of conventional Maxima. Will wxMaxima do that?
Rafael Fernández wrote: >Hi !! > >How are you all ? I've been using Gentoo for a couple of months and I really >like it. I've been working little hard for Debian until now, for 2 years more >or less, but it is a very slow-motion distribution, and I like the agility >that Gentoo has. > >I'm studying Computer Science in Madrid (Spain), and I've to sit for my final >exams. What a surprise when I had to study Algebra and I couldn't find >wxMaxima in Portage... Well, I want to know how to make ebuilds (please if you >could send me the web site that explains it), but the main reason because I >write here is that I suggest you to make an ebuild for wxmaxima: >http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net, there is the source-code and I have read >somewhere that is GPL licensed, so there won't be any legal troubles. > >Thank you so much. > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
