On 11/1/07, Greg Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!  I'm not sure if you remember me from grad school--if not, my
> apologies for the familiarity.
>

I remember you from grad school.  Nice to hear from you again.

> I'm delighted by your development of SAGE; this is truly a wonderful
> service to the mathematical community.  My department has made
> extensive
> use of Maple in undergraduate courses, and many students are rightly
> upset that they can't use those worksheets from their home computers
> without buying Maple.  When I've learned SAGE better I hope to migrate
> many (or at least some) of these Maple materials to SAGE.

Excellent.  Sage is still far from perfect, unfortunately, but
there are a lot of us working extremely hard to make it a truly
viable alternative to Maple (not an easy task).

> I'm sorry to bother you about this, but I'm having a problem
> installing
> version 2.8.10 of SAGE on my laptop (Mac OS X 10.4.10 with a PowerPC
> G4
> CPU).  When I tried to upgrade from a previous (working) version of
> SAGE, I got a strange traceback, so I removed the old directory and
> installed SAGE 2.8.10 from source.  The installation appeared
> successful
> (I've copied the install.log file to
>
>   http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/marks/install.log
>
> in case it's informative); however, SAGE won't run (I've copied the
> details of the traceback to
>
>   http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/marks/sage_error_message.txt
>
> in case that is informative).  Have I done something stupid, and is it
> corrigible?

Since it sounds like you're perfectly happy to install a binary
if one is available, and debugging a build problem on a ppc osx
box that has been around a while can be somewhat time consuming
(wrong Xcode version, weird libraries in /usr/local/lib/, weird
interaction with fink or DarwinPorts, etc.), I've posted another
2.8.10 binary for ppc osx here.

   http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/apple_osx/powerpc/

 -- William

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