On Jul 21, 1:14 pm, Žiga Lenarčič <ziga.lenar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After downloading sage I read readme.txt.
>
> If there is interest in getting Sage into an .app, it can be done via
> a free Platypus app[1]. I have succesfully used it to prepared the Mac
> OS X release of Maxima (and wxMaxima). You might inspect Maxima.app
> (download Mac OS X dmg from Maxima sourceforge) to see how it's done -
> basicly there is a script inside that runs a binary in Terminal.app.
> It's pretty straightforward. Octave.app is another such example. The
> only problem I had, was getting Maxima to know where to find it's
> files (since all files are within Maxima.app which can be put
> anywhere), but I solved it with some 'sh' magic.
>
> Sage weights 1.5 gb, so I don't know if it's smart to create a
> selfcontained .app.
>
> Regards,
> Ziga
>
> [1]http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus
This (and a number of other solutions) have been repeatedly discussed
on this list. In fact, something like this was already added to the
binary creating part of Sage (see
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4817).
However, there are some issues - see e.g
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5254
- and it's not clear to me (though presumably that is just my
ignorance) whether this has become the default distribution mode (see
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5296).
Anybody else have any comments? It would be great to have the .app
standard distribution for binaries when Snow Leopard comes out - as
well as to have it on the Mac downloads page - if it isn't already.
- kcrisman
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