[kde-edu]: inclusion of MathematiK in kdeedu

[Jeremy Bicha]

Alexander,

I'm not a KDE programmer yet (nor do I really know how to use these types of
math programs) but I think I found a few minor issues:

I like how when I compile kdegames, it tells me which packages are required
and which are optional. I don't think that's been implemented in Mathematik
yet. (For Ubuntu, I had to install r-base-dev and libspectre-dev)

It appears that though the backends are supposed to be optional, not only is
R required to start building but I think sage and maxima also end up being
required. Here's my log: http://pastebin.ca/1539337

Thanks and keep up the good work,
Jeremy Bicha

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Alexander Rieder <alexanderrieder at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the last months I've been coding on an application in Playground called
> MathematiK(but I'm open for better name suggestions). It's a frontend for
> other free software mathematics projects, giving them a nice KDE-based
> Worksheet view like Maple or Mathematica offer. Lately it has matured quite
> a
> bit, so I decided to ask you for inclusion into the KDE Edu 4.4 release,
> it's
> not perfect yet, but following the "release early, release often"
> philosophy
> I'm really looking forward to get more people testing it. How do you think
> about this? What are the steps I have to make to get MathematiK included?
>
> Some of the current features are:
> - Nice Worksheet view for evaulating Expression
> - View of plotting results inside the worksheet
> - Easy plugin based structure to add different Backends
> - Backends for:
>  - the Sage mathematics software (http://www.sagemath.org)
>  - the Maxima Computer Algebra System (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/)
>  - the R project for Statistical computing (http://www.r-project.org/)
> - GetHotNewStuff integration to up/download example worksheets
> - Typesetting of mathematical formulas using LaTeX
> - Syntax highlighting depending on the chosen backend
> - Plugin based assistant dialogs for common tasks (like integrating a
> function
> or entering a matrix)
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander Rieder
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