Hi, all,
On Dec 17, 2007, at 08:48 , William Stein wrote:
> There are now a lot of people using Sage on OSX who don't know
> (much) about the command line, but who are maple/mathematica
> users. When they try:
>
> sage: mathematica('2+2')
>
> they get a big error message about creating a "math" script, etc.,
> and similarly for Maple.
>
> It seems to me that instead of that big error, we could
> *automatically*
> track down Maple/Mathematica on their system and
> create the script and put it in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/.
>
> Thoughts?
The trick is to locate the app. I know nothing about Maple, but for
Mathematica, it should obey the "app rules". Of course, I don't
know what they are either :-}, but at least I can try to track them
down.
FWIW, I see a very skanky way to do this, but it would just be wrong
to that :-}
I will see what I can dig up. In the meantime, on Mac OS X, does
Maple install as "Maple.app", or is it a bunch of command-line
programs tied together with scripts?
Justin
--
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it doesn't work out that way.
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