On Jun 29, 2010, at 10:41 AM, kcrisman wrote: >>> So I made another folder to put it in, copied it there. The same >>> thing happened, even though that folder was otherwise empty - message >>> "You can’t copy “Sage” because it has the same name as another item on >>> the destination volume, and that volume doesn’t distinguish between >>> upper- and lowercase letters in filenames" >>> so I'm not sure what to do next. Weirdly, it copied a lot - about >>> half - maybe through /local/bin but quit in the middle of that, and >>> did not copy the actual ./sage script. >> >> Very odd indeed. I use case-sensitive HFS which is not the default. It has >> caused me some problems in the past e.g. with Steam. It looks like this is >> probably the reverse problem happening. There must be two files somewhere >> that differ only by case--that seems like a very bad thing. I can't >> remember if I did a clean before the build, so there may be some cruft in >> the package causing the problem. > > I've had this problem copying regular Sage at times too... not > reliably, but Singular vs. singular I think may have been the problem > at the time. In fact, since the files in local/bin seem to have > copied in alphabetical order, and the last three files copied seem to > have been Singular, Singular-3-1-0, and TSingular (this last being out > of order for some reason, but no others I can tell), I wouldn't be > surprised if that were causing the trouble again.
See my other message. >> I have to go right now, but I will try and make a new version tonight and/or >> figure out the problem. Perhaps I will simply put up Sage.app, and you can >> move the sage folder manually. It would be a much smaller download that way. > > At least for testing, that would certainly be a good idea. Okay, I have another up as SageApp.dmg. >>> So I trashed that, and tried opening the application from the disk >>> image again. I went to Start Server... and then went to open >>> Notebook, but it just went to http://localhost:8000/but never >>> actually showed anything. Or maybe I wasn't patient enough, as the >>> README implies? >> >> It shouldn't take forever, but it does take a long time. When the server >> starts it should open a window. > > This did not happen. Hmm. Since it's read only, I imagine it had some problems. I can't think of what they might be though. It will probably be easier just to try a new version. > Thanks - I think this definitely is well on the way to awesomeness. Thanks. I'm glad you like it. > If that is a word. It is now :) -Ivan -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
