Hi
On 21 October 2015 at 20:59, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious. Is *anybody* reading this actually actively working on
> (or planning to work on) making it Sage runs on the current version of
> OS X ("El Capitan")?
>
> With the last OS X version, Sage got ported to work on it by me buying
> Andrew Ohana [1] a nice laptop running on OS X on the condition that
> he port Sage to work on it. Of course, he's really a Linux user and
> prefers linux, but he did what had to be done. One of the previous
> ports of Sage to work on a newer version of OS X was an epically
> difficult month of pain by Craig Citro, who was my postdoc at the
> time.
>
> My impression is that (1) getting Sage to work on this most recent
> version of OS X will be much, much harder than ever before, and (2)
> nobody is working on it. I've pretty much never seen a port of
> Sage magically "just happen" to a new version of OS X.
>
> Final question, if it's never going to happen without money say, how
> much would I have to rustle up in donations to pay somebody to be able
> to have the time to focus on this? Is there anybody who would want to
> do this?
>
> - 21% of visitors to sagemath.org in the last month were using OS X
> (of those at least 20% were using El Capitan).
>
> -16% use Linux.
>
> - 50% use Windows.
>
>
And the rest? Android? IOS?
Sorry, no idea on the main question about OS X.
Regards,
Jan
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