> I'm certainly not a mac expert. However, I got Sage working through a > mac-like icon using the Platypus program (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/ > platypus). There's a good article here (http://www.tuaw.com/ > 2007/05/08/ > platypus-create-mac-binaries-from-ruby-perl-shell-scripts-et/) about > how to use the program here. But it's kinda nice. Among other > programs, the Gimp.app program uses Sage for it's Mac application > bundle. > > and had Platypus run it, putting the output into a text window. This > runs the notebook() function and the twisted server, and pops open the > browser with the Sage notebook.
I have actually taken a slightly different approach, in that I used Fluid.app <http://fluidapp.com/> to create a site specific browser that also starts Sage. This means that Sage is a "real application" that I can Cmd-Tab between etc. Can Platypus does this? If not it probably could (I may look into it). Frankly, I hate using Sage in a browser, because it is mixed in with all my other browser windows. For me a separate application is the only acceptable long-term solution. There are a few problems with my Fluid-based app currently. One is that Fluid tacks on '.com' to the URL for local addresses. That certainly means it's not ready to be released to end users. There is also a certificate issue, but I assumed that was my fault for running the sage server wrong. There is also a potential licensing issue. Fluid is closed source, and I don't know how applications built with it can be distributed. If you are interested I would be more that happy to tell you more/send you what I have. It's at a very early stage and I haven't worked out the problems, but since you brought it up, I thought I would mention what I have done. > The drawback is that the script needs to know the path to my sage > installation. I think that the workaround to this is to actually put > the entire Sage installation in the folder that Platypus creates for > the application. OS X applications on the Mac are actually folders > (unix directories). That's the solution that I was considering as well. We could just distribute binary versions as regular applications. The only (potential) problem that I see it that notebooks should be stored in some place that will be saved across upgrades/new installs. This shouldn't be hard to fix though. > Does this sound like it would be useful to the Sage community if I > could get it working? +1 -Ivan Andrus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
