On Friday, 1 March 2019 19:30:44 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 1:15 PM Szabolcs Horvát <szho...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > I am using the app version of Sage 8.6 on macOS Mojave 10.4.3. It is > extremely slow to start up. It takes multiple minutes. > > > > Running the sage or Sage executables found within the app bundle is > fast—it takes only a few seconds, as it should. It is launching the app > the normal way (double click) that does not work. > > > > Is this a known problem and is there a solution? > > The known problem is that the app version has not been looked at by a > MacOS developer for years. It might be using something obsolete. > > We are now trying to offer a Google Summer of Code project to work on it. >
Version 8.8 still has this problem. I was wondering if there's any work being done to address this. Do any of the regular users use the app version on macOS? > > If the app version is so bad then we perhaps should just pull it. > > > > > I also asked this on Ask.SageMath, but did not get a definitive answer: > > > > > https://ask.sagemath.org/question/45506/sage-takes-very-long-to-start-why/ > > > > -- > > 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-s...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-s...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/4235c7d7-e036-4e6b-961b-9a46e4147e6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.