From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 17:12:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4796616A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:12:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7E843D48 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:12:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8EHCgXD034159; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:12:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8EHCg2M000704; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:12:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8EHCcWZ000703; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:12:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:12:38 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Boris Hollas Message-ID: <20050914171237.GA618@gothic.blackend.org> Mail-Followup-To: Boris Hollas , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis References: <20050914173336.2e4b36a0.boris.hollas@uni-ulm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050914173336.2e4b36a0.boris.hollas@uni-ulm.de> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Section on installing Mathematica still not updated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:12:45 -0000 On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:33:36PM +0200, Boris Hollas wrote: > I discovered that section 10.3 "Installing Mathematica" has still not been > updated in the handbook. In march, I sent a version updated for Mathematica > 5 to this list. > > The current documentation is of no help for users who want to install a > recent version of Mathematica. > > I did not update the section 10.3.4 "Running the Mathematica Frontend over > a Network" since I installed Mathematica locally. Even with this part > missing, the updated documentation saves anybody who wants to install a > local copy of Mathematica a lot of time. > Well, I'm guilty of this. I let talk died after Brooks Davis mentioned a specific port doing most of configuration things transparently for the user. This port would reduce the amount of documentation to update and would ease user life. Brooks do you still have the port skeleton you talked about? Can it be committed and what do we have to remove/update from the Mathematica section to match this port? Marc