official statement on Linux and Calculus WIZ
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg22512] official statement on Linux and Calculus WIZ
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 02:27:12 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a prior posting to this forum: http://library.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2000/Feb/msg00458.html I offered my (unofficial) remarks on the compatibility of Mathematica for Linux with Calculus WIZ. I have received an official statement on compatibility and future releases of Calculus WIZ. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Wolfram Research's information request address <info at wolfram.com>. [begin statement] Although most of the Mathematica application packages are available for Unix platforms, Calculus WIZ is a bit of a special case. It was developed and tested for Windows and Macintosh platforms. The installers for the product install only into these platforms. It was our belief when this product was developed, that the vast majority of users would be on those two platforms. It is entirely possible that Calculus WIZ will work fine under Linux, but since we haven't tested it there, there is no certainty. Almost any basic Mathematica notebook that you create on one platform will work as intended on all other platforms to which Mathematica is ported. The reason for our hedging about the Calculus WIZ materials is that it makes heavy use of the interactivity, which may have platform-dependent subtleties requiring more detailed testing before we certify the application as compatible. As an aside, I should mention to development efforts related to Calculus WIZ. First, we are about to release an updated version of Calculus WIZ which is fully compatible with Mathematica 4. Please check http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/updates/ for this update. Secondly, we have under development a project to make Calculus WIZ a standalone custom Mathematica product that will install and function indepedent of any Mathematica you may already have on your system. Current plans are to make this a Macintosh and Windows product, but any decision to port to other platforms has not yet been made. Users who would be interested in purchasing this software if it were available for other platforms are encouraged to send their comments to <suggestions at wolfram.com>. [end statement] -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc.