Section on installing Mathematica still not updated

[Brooks Davis]

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

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