On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:20:27 PM UTC, kcrisman wrote: >> >> a lot of users on Mac/Windows move programs around all the time. > > > Try moving your MS Office install on Windows .Good luck.
Volker's right. Also with Mac's many programs can only be run from /Applications, in my experience. The only officially supported 100% working complicated software installs I have personal experience with that are fully movable are virtual machine images, LXC containers (e.g., chroot, Docker), and... the MAGMA computer algebra system. Sage is moveable mainly because I was trying to create a viable alternative to MAGMA and certain users expected that movability would work, due to their experience with MAGMA. Also, at the time (2006), there was a lot of "nontraditional" discussion (often on Slashdot) and experimentation with making packaged software that is movable. Now-a-days similar discussion usually involves Docker instead (and happens on hacker new). I'm not arguing for removing sage-location, but at least raising the issue of why it keeps getting run when there is no need. > On Mac one does essentially what I'm proposing. Because of the utter lack of > any package management system, you need to use otool to rewrite all rpaths > to be relative after compling/linking. The result is relocatable, but only > until you compile something again. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
