As you said in another thread, look at the big red message at the top of http://www.sagemath.org/download-mac.html
which points to http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19370 The latest beta version of Sage should build on OS X 10.11. It has a serious limitation: you can't move the installation once it has been built. I don't know if anyone is working on fixing this, or on a proposed stopgap (http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19410) which basically forces the Mac installation (when you do "sage --bdist") to be in a particular directory. John On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 12:00:18 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm curious. Is *anybody* reading this actually actively working on > (or planning to work on) making it Sage runs on the current version of > OS X ("El Capitan")? > > With the last OS X version, Sage got ported to work on it by me buying > Andrew Ohana [1] a nice laptop running on OS X on the condition that > he port Sage to work on it. Of course, he's really a Linux user and > prefers linux, but he did what had to be done. One of the previous > ports of Sage to work on a newer version of OS X was an epically > difficult month of pain by Craig Citro, who was my postdoc at the > time. > > My impression is that (1) getting Sage to work on this most recent > version of OS X will be much, much harder than ever before, and (2) > nobody is working on it. I've pretty much never seen a port of > Sage magically "just happen" to a new version of OS X. > > Final question, if it's never going to happen without money say, how > much would I have to rustle up in donations to pay somebody to be able > to have the time to focus on this? Is there anybody who would want to > do this? > > - 21% of visitors to sagemath.org in the last month were using OS X > (of those at least 20% were using El Capitan). > > -16% use Linux. > > - 50% use Windows. > > > > -- William > > [1] Really I used some internal math department award to buy a > UW-owned laptop that I then checked out to Andrew while he's a > student. > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
