Currently, the only OS X binaries available on the official SageMath site are labeled as being for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) only, with names like "sage-7.1-OSX_10.11.3-x86_64*". My question is: shouldn't there versions for older versions of OS X? El Capitan is less than 7 months old, and Sage 6.10 (which came out in December) again only provided OS X binaries for 10.11. It seems to me that there should be binaries for any currently supported version of OS X (10.9, 10.10, 10.11) or even older if it's no trouble. Possibly El Capitan is an exception, but I would expect that anything built on 10.7 would work on any more recent version of OS X.
In fact, the current binaries work on earlier versions of OS X (I've tested down to 10.8) but with the caveat that one can't build certain optional packages (chomp) or standard Python modules (pandas). The source of this problem, if it should be called that, are described here: http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20563 but the result is that if: a) One is running any release of OS X other than the very latest and greatest, and b) one wants to use pandas (a pretty central element to the "scientific Python stack" these days) then one's only choice to is compile Sage direct from source. I've never had any problem with the latter, but it would certainly intimidate many a potential OS X Sage user... Best, Nathan -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
