On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:21 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 7 April 2011 02:52, Felix Lawrence <fe...@physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote: >> For many people, this would make Sage no longer free - it would >> effectively cost $5 and none of that money goes to Sage. > > Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. We can give them a Sage binary. > > They can I assume download a binary for gcc and put that on their Mac > can they not? I know in the case of AIX and HP-UX, one can get binary > versions of gcc from various sources.
In order to use Cython on OS X, one currently needs XCode. Cython is a really core feature of Sage. E.g., I talk about it a lot in my Sage course for undergrads [1], and on Wednesday I had some very confused students in class that couldn't get Cython to work on their own computers (running OS X)... since as it turned out they didn't have XCode installed. I wonder if the error message when trying to use %cython mode in the notebook on OS X could be improved... I personally do almost no serious work with Sage that doesn't involve Cython. -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
