[kde-edu]: inclusion of MathematiK in kdeedu

[Alexander Rieder]

On Monday 24 August 2009 20:49:11 Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> 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.
Sure, go ahead.
> 
> >> - 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.
> 
If there are problems, using maxima with a KProcess, I just remembered, that 
maxima has the possibility to use a TcpSocket for communication (this is what 
for example WxMaxima does, see "maxima -s"). Maybe this should be used to get 
a portable Backend.

regards,
Alexander 

> regards,
> Patrick
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