Hi,
The default app download of Sage on OS X is still broken. The
problem -- which has been pointed out before -- is that the GUI app
sets the PATH incorrectly, and starting up sage totally fails (e.g.,
to create the $HOME/.sage directory). One can work around this
problem by:
1. completely exiting *all* Terminal processes,
2. start Terminal run this once
/Applications/Sage-4.8.*/Contents/Resources/sage/sage
3. Now things work.
I find it a little depressing that currently maybe every single person
in the world who tries to install the Sage app on a new OS X computer
discovers that Sage is totally broken, and likely gives up. Today,
when I saw this happen, I was able to sort it out for the person. So
at least there is one new Sage OS X user.
OPTIONS:
* Fix the problem and post a fixed binary
* Remove the Sage app from the website
* Post instructions as above and fully expect the user to follow them.
Any thoughts?
--
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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