On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 1:32:32 PM UTC-5, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:51:05 PM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> I have not noticed it before, but *sage-9.2-OSX_10.15.7-x86_64.app.dmg >>> <http://mirrors.mit.edu/sage/osx/intel/sage-9.2-OSX_10.15.7-x86_64.app.dmg> >>> does >>> not work *in macos 10.15.7. !!!!!! >>> >>> I do not understand how a sage for macos 10.15.7 that does not works on >>> macos 10.15.7 has been released. >>>> >>>> >>>> >> Unfortunately I don't think we check many of the binaries. They are >> "just produced"; actually checking they all work can't be automated and can >> be pretty time-consuming (waiting for unpacking etc.). >> > > As discussed most recently in https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29710, we > should start by eliminating the distribution of the mac app. > > Totally orthogonal to what the user was reporting, and I just want to make that VERY clear to anyone reading this later when the inevitable complaints about the dropping of the app come.
"Viable open source competitor" in the mission statement should include this type of functionality. That said, I know that the forces against actually having user-friendly interfaces for newbies that don't rely on having an internet connection are too big. (I do not consider command line friendly to true newcomers.) Primarily the lack of any interested developers having experience/interest in writing more Mac GUI code to update :-( Ideally fixing this would be a GSOC project, but who would the mentor be? (I do not have said expertise, unfortunately.) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/37495fe5-634f-44ac-9e94-b84e3df4b7c6o%40googlegroups.com.
