There are supposed to be two versions–one with the app and the other without. The reason for the non-app version is so that those users who don’t want to use the app can more easily access the sage folder.
In an ideal world there would be one version that contains the app, and also the sage directory at the top level. But this would double the size of the download unless the sage directory was a hard link to the one embedded in the app. Hard linking is technically possible but would be tricky to implement and brittle since there are no public apis for it. Using a soft link/alias won’t work nicely since copying it will copy the link instead of the directory linked to. So that’s the background. As for how to build them, it should be a matter of setting the environment variable SAGE_APP_BUNDLE=yes vs. setting it to anything else (or leaving it unset). -Ivan On Jan 20, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd also like to know what the expectations for the OSX binaries are. Why are there two separate ones to start with? Should I change something in how they are built? On Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:25:45 AM UTC, Geoff Oxberry wrote: > > According to the download website (http://boxen.math.washington. > edu/home/sagemath/sage-mirror/osx/intel/index.html), the main difference > between the two binaries is that one is geared towards Unix-style CLI use > on OS X, and the other is meant to be a clickable Mac-style binary. The > README in both disk images reflects this distinction. > > However, having downloaded both disk images, I don't see a "sage" folder > in the Unix-style CLI disk image. I only see the README, and "Sage.app" > (technically a folder, but not named "sage"), so the first-level directory > layout looks the same, and double-clicking on Sage.app from the Unix-style > CLI disk image starts Sage without having to resort to any of the > additional steps for launching Sage from the README. > > Obviously, the two disk images are different; they have different > checksums, and different file sizes. Could someone explain the differences > in a little more detail? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
