On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:25 AM, kcrisman wrote: > 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).
See also http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageMacApplication > 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. It looks like it's almost there, wonder why it stalled. Ironically the majority of Sage develpers that I know use OS X, but the minority prefer double-clicking on an .app to starting it up in terminal. This is almost certainly the opposite of the potential OS X user pool though. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
