On Dec 17, 2007 10:19 AM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>
On my OS X box:
rank4:~ was$ cd /Applications/
rank4:Applications was$ ls -l |grep Maple
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 Oct 17 23:04 Maple 11
drwxr-xr-x 3 was admin 102 Feb 16 2007 Maple 11.app
-- William
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