[kde-edu]: inclusion of MathematiK in kdeedu

[Patrick Spendrin]

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Alexander Rieder schrieb:
> On Monday 24 August 2009 14:23:19 Patrick Spendrin wrote:
>> Alexander Rieder schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>> ...
>>
>>> Some of the current features are:
>> ...
>>
>>> - 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/)
>> I just tried to compile mathematik on windows and I found some problems
>> - If R is not available, currently the build fails because you use
>> message(FATAL_ERROR) in your FindR.cmake. I think I can try to fix this
>> myself, if you don't mind (so that in the end
>> macro_optional_find_package works).
> Sure, go ahead, I don't really know how these CMake checks work anyway. The 
> code for the FindR.cmake was taken from the RKward project
Ok, I will commit it directly to trunk if you don't mind.
> 
>> - In both Maxima and Sage backends you use kptyprocess to start the
>> runtime executables. As there are no ptys on windows, I would like to
>> know if you really need to use it instead of kprocess directly? If I
>> find the time, I will take a look into that as well, but I might need a
>> bit longer for that.
> 
> I was first using KProcess, but i remember having some really strange problems 
> with it (like some commands not working, while others do), but maybe it can be 
> changed so it uses kprocess on windows (as the're is very little code that 
> needs to be changed, and it's all in (Sage|Maxima)Session ).
Looking at it, I just found out that Sage isn't available yet under
windows, so maxima is the only one needed.
I have a patch here that uses KProcess instead of KPtyProcess, but since
it doesn't work correctly yet, I don't want to send it to you.
If I can get it working here on windows, then we can test it under Linux
too.
> 
regards,
Patrick
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