[sage-devel] Re: I'm running Mac OS X. So which version of sage do I install?

2011-01-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I always advice to build from source. Takes a bit of time though... On Jan 23, 12:49 am, Niles wrote: > On Jan 22, 11:37 am, kcrisman wrote: > > > The 10.6 version will probably not run on Leopard, though one could > > try.  Usually the Sage on Mac has been forward-compatible only, based > > on

[sage-devel] Re: I'm running Mac OS X. So which version of sage do I install?

2011-01-22 Thread Niles
On Jan 22, 11:37 am, kcrisman wrote: > The 10.6 version will probably not run on Leopard, though one could > try.  Usually the Sage on Mac has been forward-compatible only, based > on the support list emails.  So the 10.4 binary should be just fine. > > What this means is that we could use some

[sage-devel] Re: I'm running Mac OS X. So which version of sage do I install?

2011-01-22 Thread Niles
A partial answer to my own question: The installation instructions at http://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadAndInstallationGuide and http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/binary.html look pretty easy to update. Now I just need to know what to recommend for 10.5, 64-bit Mac users. -Niles -- T

[sage-devel] Re: I'm running Mac OS X. So which version of sage do I install?

2011-01-22 Thread kcrisman
> I know I have a 64bit OS and processor, so the first two seem better. > But I'm running OS X 10.5, not 10.6, so the 10.6 in the filenames > scares me. Also I could not find any information about the difference > between the -Darwin and the -Darwin-app versions. > > Should I go for the older sage