Re: [Texmacs-dev] Dressing a list of working plug-ins and add documentation

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:21:09PM +0700, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:17:34PM +0700, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> >>* remove the mupad plugin, because mupad is dead
> >Is it realy dead dead dead? The plug-in was nice.
> I think it is. Sciface has been bought by MathWorks, and MuPAD now
> exists only as a MATLAB Symbolic Toolbox.

Thanks for the info and for the patch, which I applied.

I think that we can keep supporting the plug-in for a while,
as long as there may still be some people around who
have an old copy of MuPAD.

Best, --Joris

> >>(and the plugin has a known security hole)
> >What was that, just for curiousity?
> Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Here's the patch to fix it:
> 
> diff -r -U1
> TeXmacs-1.0.7.10-src.orig/plugins/mupad/bin/tm_mupad_help
> TeXmacs-1.0.7.10-src/plugins/mupad/bin/tm_mupad_help
> --- TeXmacs-1.0.7.10-src.orig/plugins/mupad/bin/tm_mupad_help
> 2011-03-05 16:46:18.000000000 +0600
> +++ TeXmacs-1.0.7.10-src/plugins/mupad/bin/tm_mupad_help
> 2011-03-18 01:56:23.000000000 +0600
> @@ -28,3 +28,3 @@
>  export SYSINFO
> -LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${MuPAD_ROOT_PATH}/${SYSINFO}/lib:/usr/local/X11R6/motif-2.0/lib:/usr/local/X11R6/lib:$MuPAD_ROOT_PATH/$SYSINFO/bin
> +LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:}${MuPAD_ROOT_PATH}/${SYSINFO}/lib:/usr/local/X11R6/motif-2.0/lib:/usr/local/X11R6/lib:$MuPAD_ROOT_PATH/$SYSINFO/bin
>  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> Andrey