My first contact ended in a disaster

[PeterLuschny]

I'm giving you my experience with my very first application
of this module. After installation I went to runtests.jl and
selected two expressions to execute in the REPL.
Here the protocol:

using Maxima
[ Info: Precompiling Maxima [e6386f5f-9a8a-5a5d-a605-d2d61207ca5a]
WARNING: could not import Base.expand into Maxima

julia> m"expand((1+x)^2)"
2
expand((x + 1) )

julia> taylor(:(sin(x)), :x, 0, 3)
ERROR: incorrect syntax: � is not an infix operator
subst(%gamma, γ incorrect syntax: Too many )'s
[1] mcall(::MExpr) at C:\Users\Home.julia\packages\Maxima\p6qVJ\src\mexpr.jl:268
[2] |> at .\operators.jl:813 [inlined]
[3] _subst(::String, ::String, ::String) at C:\Users\Home.julia\packages\Maxima\p6qVJ\src\mexpr.jl:167
[4] MExpr(::Expr) at C:\Users\Home.julia\packages\Maxima\p6qVJ\src\mexpr.jl:188
[5] taylor(::Expr, ::Symbol, ::Int64, ::Int64) at C:\Users\Home.julia\packages\Maxima\p6qVJ\src\calculus.jl:208
[6] top-level scope at none:0

Windows 10 / Julia 1.0.1 / Maxima.jl v0.1.0
Maxima 5.42.1 using Lisp CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07)

[nsmith5]

Hey there, sorry for the delayed response. Looks like there is an issue converting between Julia expressions and Maxima expressions on Windows. I'll take a look into this, but I'm not in front of a windows machine too often unfortunately. In the interim, you might want to give this a shot in a docker container or the Windows subsystem for Linux