On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> 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?
IIRC, It's an .app, but inside the .app folder there's a executable
file "maple" that one can invoke from the command line works as one
would expect. On OS X one can use spotlight (also accessible from the
shell) to locate such things fairly rapidly.
- Robert
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