Re: [sage-support] Sage is extremely slow to start on macOS Mojave

['Justin C. Walker' via sage-support]

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 10:30 , Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 1:15 PM Szabolcs Horvát <szhor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am using the app version of Sage 8.6 on macOS Mojave 10.4.3.  It is 
>> extremely slow to start up. It takes multiple minutes.
>> 
>> Running the sage or Sage executables found within the app bundle is fast—it 
>> takes only a few seconds, as it should.  It is launching the app the normal 
>> way (double click) that does not work.
>> 
>> Is this a known problem and is there a solution?
> 
> The known problem is that the app version has not been looked at by a
> MacOS developer for years. It might be using something obsolete.
> 
> We are now trying to offer a Google Summer of Code project to work on it.
> 
> If the app version is so bad then we perhaps should just pull it.

I have been unable to get the .app (8.4 or 8.5) working on 10.14, but it works 
just fine on earlier versions of macOS, so I don’t think pulling it is a great 
idea.

Justin

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