On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM Qian Yun <oldk1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FriCAS was distributed on macOS via CI-built unsigned dmg
> files.  It's getting more and more difficult to install
> unsigned dmg on recent macOS releases, especially on ARM
> chips, I presume.
>
> FriCAS is essentially a command line utility plus the
> HyperDoc and graphics components, which requires X11,
> which is increasingly rarely installed on recent macOS
> I presume.   So I believe homebrew should be the perfect
> way to distribute FriCAS on macOS.
>
> I took some effort to add fricas to homebrew:
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/205760
>
> Since I don't have macOS available right now, especially macOS
> on ARM chips, I'm asking for macOS users to test fricas
> installed from homebrew.

just tested your  Homebrew fricas as a part of SageMath on an arm64
(M1) machine,
all works great! Good work!
No X11 used.


>
> You can report the following information:
> 1. OS version and CPU model (amr64 or amd64)
> 2. whether fricas get installed successfully
> 3. whether fricas runs successfully
> 4. If you have X11 server installed, report whether
> HyperDoc and graphics works properly
>
> If fricas via homebrew works successfully, I'll use this
> as the distribution method instead of the unsigned dmg
> method for future release. (But unsigned dmg will still
> be available in CI artifices.)
>
> - Qian
>
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