On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, gsw wrote: > On 21 Jul., 22:13, 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 (seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/ >>> sage_trac/ticket/4817). >>> However, there are some issues - see e.ghttp://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 alsohttp://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. >> > > Perhaps this exactly is the point. Personally, I'd prefer a click on > Sage.app being equivalent to "cd to the root of the Sage-version-of- > the-day" and then do "./sage -sh". Explicitly, I'd not want to start > up Sage, at least not immediately. > > Do we already have some, say ".sageshrc", which is executed by "./sage > -sh" and which could easily be adapted to one's needs? So for Sage > developers, it would say "stay in (Sage) shell mode", and for the > "normal user" (or if not present at all) Sage would be started (i.e. > the Sage interpreter)?
I was imaging that double-clicking on the app would fire up Sage.app/.../sage -notebook (perhaps with a special browser), and it wouldn't impact anyone who does it the "old-fashioned" way. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
