Fantastic!! On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:11 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
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