on osx make a symlink sage.command --> sage

[williamstein]

Well, perhaps this is know, but apropos the petition to make steps
4--6 of installation in OS X nicer, there are a very easy way. Simply
rename the sage script to sage.command. This way if you double-click
over it from finder it will be automatically launched inside a
Terminal session.

Saludos,
Rafa

P.D. I'm not a OSX guru, only a /bin/sh user in OSX landscape ;-)

CC: @gvol

Component: user interface

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/1760

[williamstein]

comment:1

One way to implement this is make it so sage -bdist on osx, in addition to just making dmg, also does

 ln -s sage sage.command

in SAGE_ROOT right before making the dmg file. This should just involve
adding one line to SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-bdist

[kcrisman]

comment:4

Wow, I can't believe this ticket eluded detection for all this time. Do we really need this now that we have the app bundle (even made all the time, thanks Jeroen!)?

[kcrisman]

comment:5

Bye-bye. Not that it isn't fun to have a symlink, but anyone who really needs this will either

• download the app because they don't know how to do this
• make a symlink themselves because they do.

[kcrisman]

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman