Mathics on Windows

[Jan Pöschko]

Hi all,

Did anybody ever try installing Mathics on Windows?

Thanks,

Jan

Begin forwarded message:

From: Gilberto Garcia-Pulgarin <garciap...@gmail.com>

Date: September 21, 2012 8:48:47 PM GMT+02:00

To: j...@poeschko.com

Subject: Hi, from Colombia

Reply-To: giga...@ciencias.udea.edu.co

Hello Jan,

I want to use mathics online or download it to mi PC, with windows, but I was unlucky in both.

Can you send me some information.

Thanks and best regards from Colombia

[David Meeker]

Mathics seems like a pretty neat tool.  I got it running on Windows, and I decided to toss everything into a self-installing executable.  I tried the installation on a few different Windows 7 machines and XP virtual machines, and it seems to run OK.  I've put the Windows self-installed executable I made up on my website at:

http://www.femm.info/wiki/Mathics/

--Dave

[Angus]

Excellent. We should think about putting something like this on mathics.org. Moreover, it would be really awesome if we could set something like this up to happen automatically (with $> python setup.py bdist for example).

[Nectarios]

I'd like to congratulate you on an excellent job with the windows .exe installer. I ran into some problems trying to install mathics on my Mac. However, I installed it on my Win XP SP3 virtual machine using your executable and it works like a charm. 

Thanks a lot.

Nectarios  

[Studs Kreitzer]

Hi gang,

Dr. Meeker's installer is great! I see there is Mathics-0.6 with some more commands available now. What is the method for updating to this? Or could the installer be updated itself to take advantage of the new package?

 Many thanks,

Studs Kreitzer

[Ádám Hegedűs]

Indeed, if someone made a Windows installer for version 0.6, or just made some decent instructions regarding the installation, it would be super nice.

[Anton Gribovskiy]

Thank you for that build that you made, it is awesome. 

It did not work for me at first time, but I fixed code for system dirrectory im settings.py:

if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
    import os; 
    homedir = os.environ['APPDATA']
    DATA_DIR = homedir+'/Python/Mathics/'
else:
    DATA_DIR = path.expanduser('~/.local/var/mathics/') 

Also, when I was trying  to install it I've got an error connected with interruptingcow: windows does not support SIGALRM, but your installation works. Do you know any reason why? 

Anyway, thank you for your work. 

[Ádám Hegedűs]

I've just noticed that David Meeker has updated his site with the Windows installer for Mathics 0.6! Thanks a lot!

[Studs Kreitzer]

Yes, indeed, thanks so much for the new package. Now, has anyone else noticed a few error messages pop up? For example, in the Gallery page that you can open when first starting the program, the Sierpinski triangle example generates all sorts of errors, which don't occur in version 0.5. Likewise, in the Linear Algebra examples, the Transpose operation also fails with errors, again not in 0.5. Finally, did anyone get threat warnings on installation? AVG reported a problem with python.exe, which didn't happen to me with 0.5.

Anyone else see this? Thanks.

Thomas Henry

[Ádám Hegedűs]

I don't know how to bring up the Gallery page, but to answer the other two issues: transpose works for me, and Zone Alarm didn't give me any warning when I installed the thing.

[Studs Kreitzer]

When you first open the Mathics front-end in the browser, a welcome box is shown. In it is a link which opens the Gallery. The Sierpinski triangle example about halfway down the page yields dozens of errors for me. Is anyone else seeing this? I don't get the errors in version 0.5.

For whatever reason, the linear algebra example employing Transpose is working for me now. I did go ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled everything, and now don't get the AVG warning.

However, I still wonder about that Gallery example and its errors.

Thanks,

Thomas Henry

[Ádám Hegedűs]

The Sierpinkski triangle example is bugged for me too.

[David Meeker]

I get the same issue with the Sierpinski triangle example as well.  The error messages are pretty cryptic, so it's hard for me to tell exactly why Mathics 0.6 doesn't like it.

An interesting data point is that the server at mathics.net returns the $Version string:
Mathics 0.6.0rc1 on PyPy 2.7.3 (2.1.0+dfsg-3, Sep 12 2013, 13:13:48) using Django 1.5.5, SymPy 0.7.3, mpmath 0.17
and does correctly render the Sierpinski triangle example, whereas the Windows version I rolled up returns:
Mathics 0.6.0rc1 on CPython 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] using Django 1.6.1, SymPy 0.7.3, mpmath 0.17
A significant difference is that I'm using CPython, whereas the mathics.net server is using PyPy.

So, I rolled up a new installer based on PyPy 2.2.1 rather than CPython. On my machine, the PyPy version runs all of the Gallery examples without throwing any errors.  I've posted the PyPy version at http://www.femm.info/wiki/Mathics06

--Dave

N.B.  I screened both the CPython and PyPy versions with AVG 2014 and Microsoft Security Essentials.  No red flags appeared.

[Ádám Hegedűs]

Thanks for the update.

[Angus]

Working on a fix for the Serpinski bug. At first glance it looks like it might be a Sympy bug.