On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
Do you have an account on any of my computers? boxen.math.washington.edu? bsd.math.washington.edu? > -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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
