On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:59 PM, William Stein wrote: > 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?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I do have an account on boxen, but not bsd. Actually, Linux can probably mount the images, but I think I need to be root. >> -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 -- 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
