Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:19:13 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Boris Hollas <boris.hollas@uni-ulm.de>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Subject: Re: Section on installing Mathematica still not updated Message-ID: <20050914171913.GA13703@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050914171237.GA618@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050914173336.2e4b36a0.boris.hollas@uni-ulm.de> <20050914171237.GA618@gothic.blackend.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:12:38PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > 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? I've got it, but haven't had time to finish it. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDKFuRXY6L6fI4GtQRAuSxAKC6A/L+MbppeikZ+9WNaL1BpSMP2QCfRsv/ bwYI/HPEfUxuE4Qkg28F4Dw= =cy6s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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