> On 22/10/2015, at 0819, Christian Nassau <nas...@nullhomotopie.de> wrote: > > On 21.10.2015 21:11, John H Palmieri wrote: >> 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. > > I might be inclined to put some work into the #19410 (which I proposed), if > there were some sort of consensus that this is the way to go (i.e.: forbid > relocation, use a fixed install diectory). I'm more or less a complete Mac > newbie and got started on this issue purely out of idle curiosity - I'm not > at all sure whether experienced Mac users agree that this solution a) will > work and b) is the right one. > > Cheers, > Christian
IMO, this solution will work, but is not the best one. An installer that allows the user to select the installation directory (which is then fixed) is a better idea. I don't move apps around very much, and I can't think of any time I've moved one after having the installer ask me where to install it (the ones I can remember moving are TeXLive, which installs its apps in some subsubfolder, and old iWork, when the same thing happened). I'm not a fan of /Applications/sagemath-$version, as then upgrading causes a new folder to be made, which will break any aliases/dock shortcuts. Michael -- 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.
