On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:46 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:56 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> 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 >> >> Making essentially a 4.8.1 release? I would be happy with that. Perhaps I >> should have pushed harder for this, but I underestimated the work going into >> 5.0. FWIW this is my favorite unless 5.0 will be out within, say, a few >> weeks. >> >> The change is trivial, so it might be easiest to open the app and make the >> change manually. That wouldn't require rebuilding everything on all the >> different architectures. Unfortunately, I think the disk images are read >> only so they would have to be re-imaged. > > Please, please, please do this.
Okay. Where do I store the fixed versions, and is there a place I can mount them and twiddle the bits without having to download all 3GB? -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
