Hi Max, On 11 Jul., 17:56, Maximilian Nickel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > i've just created a simple script that creates an OS X application > bundle for Sage. The usage is pretty simple, just copy the sage > directory from the .dmg into the directory of the script and run 'make > release'. > I thought it might be usefull for people running on OS X, so i'm > sharing it with this list. > > You can get the code here:http://bitbucket.org/mnick/sageapp/ > > Best regards, > Max
since everybody else seems to be too busy, I'll answer. First of all, thanks for your effort, and thanks for sharing it with us! To be honest, the OS X fraction of the Sage Development Team is currently rather inactive, e.g. one of us (Michael Abshoff) is taking a temporary timeout from Sage development. Although there have been two or three 99% attempts to finally deliver officially Sage on OS X as an "app", this has not happened yet. IIRC, there even is currently some switch via an environmental variable, that already does this, but it is not on by default. As far as I remember, the problems still open were with moving the app around, or copying it to a different computer (which in the Apple world is a perfectly valid thing to do). Then Sage upon startup should recognize this, rebuilding certain parts that hardcode the path, or complaining if it was built e.g. on a PPC Mac and now is copied to/started on an Intel Mac, or printing some reasonable eror message if it was built under OS X 10.5 and/or with "64bit" enabled, and now is started under OS X 10.4. Personally, I hope that "OS X 64bi"t will be added to the released binaries in the Sage 4.1.1 version. But I fear that the long overdue "cleanup" of certain oddities like the outdated "Readme-OS-X", or the fact that in the .dmg, Sage lacks a verison number (it should be e.g a folder "sage-4.1" instead of just "sage") will not happen before OS X 10.6 is out and triggers this. Cheers, Georg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
