On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:34:38 AM UTC+8, William wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just got yet another (almost daily now) bug report about our OS X
> binaries being complete crap.  This time from a Fields Medalist!  So
> why don't we deal with this?
>
> The traceback he sent me is exactly the same as the one that started
> this thread.    This is really stupid.
>
as a courtesy to the new users, one at least should put a big warning on 
the download page of this buggy download 
(*mirrorsname*/sage/osx/intel/index.html)
And tell them to use the Terminal (i.e. non '-app' file) version for the 
time being.
Otherwise it indeed alienates a lot of people :-(

Dima

 

>  -- William
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Ivan Andrus <> wrote:
> > FWIW you should be able to work around the problem by opening 
> Terminal.app before starting sage.  At least if it's the manifestation of 
> the problem that I think it is.
> >
> > -Ivan
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Mike OS wrote:
> >
> >> Just corroborating.
> >>
> >> I encountered the same problem this week installing sage for the first
> >> time on a laptop running 10.6.8.
> >> I had no problem installing on a imac running 10.6.8 that already had
> >> an older copy of sage.
> >>
> >>
>
>

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