From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 17 13:59:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA05091 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA05082 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA23260; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:59:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:59:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: MuPAD ported to FreeBSD Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Heya folks, Check out the free (to educational types and scientific users) alternative to Mathematica, MuPAD: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/ I supplied these folks with a 2.2-RELEASE account so they could knock the bugs out of it and get all the stuff compiled so it works. Nate W. had to help out with a couple of linker questions, but it seems to work pretty well! (I say this without knowing a lot about Mathematica, but what little I tried was very cool.) Proudly the README page on the various distributions suggests our version now has fewer problems than the Linux version. :-) They give out binaries only, and ask people to register their copies. (Presumably so they can talk about how many end-users they have so that they can then request more funding to work on this.) This thing screams for a FreeBSD port, but I've been busy and I haven't had time [yet] to do it. This is just a heads-up to anyone that wants to play with it in the meantime, and if someone gets around to it before I do a port would be cool. I'm sure for someone that knows what they're doing it's a real simple job. Happy trails, Brian