#5261: Make it so OS X app bundles can have space in the name
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   Reporter:  mabshoff  |       Owner:  mabshoff           
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  needs_work         
   Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  sage-4.3           
  Component:  porting   |    Keywords:                     
Work_issues:            |      Author:  Ivan Andrus        
   Upstream:  N/A       |    Reviewer:  Karl-Dieter Crisman
     Merged:            |  
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Changes (by kcrisman):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_work


Old description:

> This is somewhat of a multi issue ticket, but I don't think that doing
> all four of them individually will give us much of a benefit.
>
>   * default the name to Sage-x.y.z.app - that way you can have many Sage
> releases in parallel :)
>   * fix a bug that causes the app to fail to start if the name of the app
> contains spaces
>   * remove the extra copyright work in credits as well as give credit to
> "William Stein and the Sage Development Team"
>   * do not put the app skeleton in a tar.gz in the ext repo since it
> makes applying patches very expensive and opaque
>

> Cheers,
>
> Michael

New description:

 Fix the bug that causes the app to fail to start if the name of the app
 contains spaces.

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Comment:

 Unfortunately, if I rename the app bundle to have a space, things don't
 work.  I misread the stuff above - now I understand what the problem was.

 I am renaming the ticket, and hopefully this will be possible to fix
 still.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5261#comment:9>
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