[kde-edu]: inclusion of MathematiK in kdeedu

[Alexander Rieder]

On Saturday 22 August 2009 22:07:38 Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> 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
> 

Sage and Maxima are only required at runtime. if the needed executables aren't 
found, the backends don't show up. For R I thought it was optional, but my 
CMake skills are limited. I'll have a look at it. LibSpectre is a hard 
requirement, as it is used throughout the app to render eps files, either 
generated by LaTeX, or as the result of plots.

Alexander

> 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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