maxima

Description

From the website at http://maxima.sourceforge.net/: Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and arbitrarily precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

License

GPL

SPKG Maintainers

• Michael Abshoff
• William Stein

Upstream Contact

The mailing list to contact is [email protected].

Dependencies

• clisp

Build Instructions

How to make a new version of the Maxima SAGE spkg.

• Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933 and download the source tar.gz ball. That's near the bottom of that page (i.e., hard to find if you don't scroll past all the big red adds).

• Extract the tarball to replace the src/ subdirectory of this package.

• Type ./spkg-dist then create an spkg from this directory, with sage -pkg maxima-x.y.z. Here's what spkg-dist does: Removed the foreign language versions of the info files, since they add several MEGS (and they weren't in previous versions of Maxima). This meant making empty directories and changing the various Makefile.in.

• Test the resulting maxima-??.spkg.
• Evidently, it's necessary to also make a new clisp package (identical to before), but with a bigger number, so no matter what maxima gets built against the correct version of clisp (this can be an issue for directories that have been moved). This has nothing to do with maxima-??.spkg -- it's about making a new clisp-??.spkg.

Changelog

maxima-5.13.0.p2 (Michael Abshoff)

• due to fixing #1471 we need to tell maxima to use clisp.bin as
  • clisp executable

ToDo

• Add more history from hg