On Jan 30, 7:47 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
> Platypus has been discussed a number of times before, including by
> Ivan:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86b087...http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/647f96...http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/a6b8dc...http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c181f8...
>
> I have been spectacularly unsuccessful with Platypus, but it certainly
> sounds like others have been able to get it working.
Yep, and given that it isn't open source I would rather not touch it.
> Anyway, it sounds like what mabshoff really needs is just the best
> tarball possible to then be able to drop a Sage build into for a fully
> functional .app bundle. If that was created just once with Platypus
> by someone else, presumably for every new Sage release the new binary
> could just be dropped into the bundle.
>
> My own bundle is very bare-bones - so for instance the suggestion
> above about "open -f Terminal.app $location/sage" might make it
> better. If someone sent mabshoff one that supported things like
> knowing whether Terminal was already open, whether a Sage process was
> already running, being able to drag-and-drop .sws or .py or .sage
> files (contextually knowing whether to open the notebook!) that would
> be even sweeter!
Indeed, but having a minimal working version of an app bundle beats
the best solution not in Sage by a mile :)
> But it sounds like (correct me if I'm wrong) the thing which has held
> this up lo these many months and threads is just having something that
> could be fully automated, needing no additional effort other than
> slapping a new binary in or perhaps changing a version number, which a
> script could do.
To be overly dramatic: Anything not automated and integrated into
"sage -bdist" is worthless since it requires manual interaction. But
something that works better than we have and for now has to be run
manually should be used to make the integrated version better.
> - kcrisman
Cheers,
Michael
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