[macOS] New beta app by Marc Culler

Nathan Dunfield

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Apr 4, 2021, 6:47:30 PM4/4/21

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Dear Sage folks,

Marc Culler has been working on a fully signed and notarized version of the SageMath binary for macOS, with the goal of eliminating the many problems plaguing Sage on that platform caused by Apple's gatekeeper antimalware protections. He now has posted a beta version at:

https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases/tag/v1.0-beta.2

and needs as many people to try it out as possible and report any problems on the GitHub issue tracker.

The app supports macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur and can run Sage either in a terminal window or as a Jupyter notebook. Please try it out!

I should emphasize that I am just the messenger and the credit for all the hard work leading to this huge step forward in providing a user-friendly macOS binary is entirely due to Marc (https://marc-culler.info/).

Thanks,

Nathan

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Apr 9, 2021, 8:24:13 PM4/9/21

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I tried it out! It is very slick. It resolves many issues with the current .app.dmg that can easily scare away newcomers.

Nathan Dunfield

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Apr 10, 2021, 11:14:00 AM4/10/21

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The first full release of this app has been posted at:

https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases/tag/v1.0

A trac ticket to update the Sage docs to mention it is here:

https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31638

Additionally, perhaps it should be linked to at e.g.

http://mirrors.mit.edu/sage/osx/intel/index.html

In my testing, I have found it much superior to the current binaries on newer versions of macOS, solving many of the issues that keep coming up on macOS on sage-support and sage-devel.