[Slackbuilds-users] updating mathics?

[dchmelik at gmail.com]

I want to update mathics, which now consists of mathics-core, 
mathics-django, mathics-scanner, or mathics-omnibus, and others.  I 
checked what I needed while building,and my SlackBuilds (mentioned last 
year are on my website) made packages: determined the set needs click, 
mathics-django, mathics_scanner, python3-mpmath, python3-numpy, 
python3-scipy, python3-sympy, but I don't know what goes to what, so I 
asked mathics' slack chat months ago.  They never answered.  I asked 
their github.  Instead they talked about finding python package 
dependencies in general, such as with pipdeptree, which instead lists 
llvmite, mathics_scanner, mpmath, numpy, palettable, pillow, pint, 
python-dateutil, requests, setuptools, sympy (mathics-django is for 
command-line but might not be needed for world wide web interface also 
for localhost, but I'm unsure).
         Then they proceeded to say 'standard' dependencies on Slackware 
14--from 13 years ago--are old!
         That's without getting to details whether 
mathics-create-database script Urchlay wrote is still needed (maybe not).
         At this point, I give up: anyone can take over mathics. 
However, if no one does, I'll try to continue.  I just haven't known 
what to do since Mathics 4 (by/after which it doesn't work right) and 
now despite it's called Mathics3, it's mathics 7.  It's a 'mess of 
python dependencies' the programmers apparently aren't following/using 
strictly UNIX-like OS, so I'm stuck.  I won't be able to submit the new 
updates (though they work) without finding out what the dependencies 
really are.
         Maybe WolframEngine is easier (just haven't been able to install).