On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Robert Bradshaw<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > > 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.
I think it is stalled because it was something Michael Abshoff was pushing, then stopping, then pushing, testing, etc. And he isn't working on Sage anymore. Somebody else just has to step up and move this foward. There's clearly tons of interest, so I'm very optimistic. William > 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 > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
