> > I was looking at this and the explanation in the bug seems a little > complicated.
Agreed. As someone who knows very very little about how to do this kind of thing, I just cobbled together hints from a wide variety of sources and people to get something that worked and actually was an app, not just a script. > > One can create a project (of almost any kind) in Xcode and build it. I Yes, that seemed clear - but I don't understand Xcode, so I did everything including .plist by hand. Certainly if this would make things more streamlined it would be great; up to now (many months) no one has given instructions for this. > called mine "sage" and got a "sage.app" from the build. Delete the > Resources directory. Take a /bin/sh script that calls "open -f > Terminal.app $location/sage" and move it to sage.app/Contents/MacOS/ > sage. > > This turns "sage.app" into a double-clickable app that launches sage > and shuts down. That's basically what the tarball mabshoff now has in hand implementing #4817 does as well, except without the $location trick, which no one has ever told us about before. > The icon is just gravy. Yes, but fun and helpful gravy, particularly for new non-hardcore users. Does that have to be removed? It would be a shame to have a shorter script that for some reason didn't allow that. Anyway, it sounds like the long-sought OSX gurus (see the OSX readme file) are finally arriving on the list the last few months! Thanks, and anything that makes this more efficient (e.g. not creating random / tmp/ files) will be a great addition to Sage. - kcrisman PS: The final step in the whole saga would be to use Interface Builder to make, well, an interface (which presumably would just add some kind of Aqua niceness to a terminal session implanted in the interface?). I have no idea how to do this, but http://www.iwu.edu/~cskiadas/Apps/index.html is an older example of doing this with Macaulay 2 which as far as I know was fairly functional. Anyway, that would be suh-weet. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
