we looked for students to work on mac app in GSoC, to no avail. basically, IMHO, mac app is like sagenb, old technology that should be rewritten from scratch.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, 20:50 kcrisman, <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/37495fe5-634f-44ac-9e94-b84e3df4b7c6o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAAWYfq0XV%3DhNe0Bx1A377yvOAWVa7VPahVXpSyr7pyG7YMSm%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
