On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, William Stein wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just found out that I have xmaxima in my $SAGE_LOCAL/bin folder.
> > I am pretty sure no one ordered that. It seems that it will build by
> > default
> > if the configure script finds tk. Actually I had a look at the ebuild
> > in Gentoo
> > and to disable it we pass --with-wish=none and do surgery on the
> > makefile.in in the interface folder.
> >
> > Since tcl/tk is not in sage I guess we don't want that extra stuff and
> > the
> > (small) build time associated with it. If no one protest I will open a
> > ticket
> > with a patch in the next few hours.
>
> I protest.  I think that if the user building Sage has the requisite
> dependencies to build xmaxima, then it should get built when
> Sage gets built.
>
I don't care either way personally, but how will the user know that they
may actually have xmaxima as well? If they don't know it's there and it
was never really intended to be there, they are not losing anything.

I'll leave it alone.

Francois

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