On Dec 17, 2007 10:27 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Here's the script I suggest in the error message for running Maple
on OSX:
rank4:Applications was$ more /Users/was/bin/maple
#!/bin/sh
/Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/Current/bin/maple $@
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
