On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Christian Nassau <nas...@nullhomotopie.de> wrote: > On 21.10.2015 21:11, John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> The latest beta version of Sage should build on OS X 10.11. It has a >> serious limitation: you can't move the installation once it has been built. >> I don't know if anyone is working on fixing this, or on a proposed stopgap >> (http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19410) which basically forces the Mac >> installation (when you do "sage --bdist") to be in a particular directory. > > > I might be inclined to put some work into the #19410 (which I proposed), if > there were some sort of consensus that this is the way to go (i.e.: forbid > relocation, use a fixed install diectory). I'm more or less a complete Mac > newbie and got started on this issue purely out of idle curiosity - I'm not > at all sure whether experienced Mac users agree that this solution a) will > work and b) is the right one.
I support that approach for OS X, since the majority of OS X users are the sole users of their machines. Just dropping sage in /Applications is very reasonable. Being able to build in one place, then move the bdist, is very important in the context of users installing Sage binaries on big multi-user Linux machine. Such machines exist and are somewhat common in the research math world. For OS X, such machines are basically non-existent, since Linux is a much more common server OS X. -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
