SAGE for OS X 10.3 ?

[robf97]

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere -- can anyone tell me if SAGE
will become available for OS X 10.3?

Cheers, Rob

[William Stein]

On Feb 8, 2008 4:58 PM, robf97 <rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Apologies if this is answered elsewhere -- can anyone tell me if SAGE
> will become available for OS X 10.3?

No. Apple doesn't support any good compilers for OS X.

William

[Michael Abshoff]

And we are unaware of any way to compile a binary from 10.4 that will work
on 10.3-10.5. Since Apple has dropped security support for 10.3 it would
be highly recommended to upgrade anyway.

One way to get around Apple's lack of proper compilers is to build your
own toolchain, but my guess would be that an upgrade would be less work
and probably much easier.

> William

Cheers,

Michael

> >
>

[William Stein]

On Feb 8, 2008 5:12 PM, Michael Abshoff

Yep. Basically:

Guess at cost in time to get Sage to work on 10.3: at least $5,000
Cost to upgrade OS X: about $100

William

[Michael Abshoff]

William Stein wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2008 5:12 PM, Michael Abshoff
> <Michael...@fsmath.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> William Stein wrote:
>> >
>> > On Feb 8, 2008 4:58 PM, robf97 <rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Apologies if this is answered elsewhere -- can anyone tell me if SAGE
>> >> will become available for OS X 10.3?
>> >
>> > No. Apple doesn't support any good compilers for OS X.
>>
>> And we are unaware of any way to compile a binary from 10.4 that will
>> work
>> on 10.3-10.5. Since Apple has dropped security support for 10.3 it would
>> be highly recommended to upgrade anyway.
>>
>> One way to get around Apple's lack of proper compilers is to build your
>> own toolchain, but my guess would be that an upgrade would be less work
>> and probably much easier.
>
> Yep. Basically:
>
> Guess at cost in time to get Sage to work on 10.3: at least $5,000
> Cost to upgrade OS X: about $100

:) - a toolchain on 10.3 can be build in about 2-5 hours on a decent CPU
if you know what you are doing, so the $5K seems a little excessive. You
could fly me in for that kind of money and make me build it on your
personal machine. But I agree that the upgrade is the right way to go,
especially if you happen to be online with that box.

> William

Cheers,

Michael

> >
>

[robf97]

Thanks everyone for doing my searching for me; I will indeed be
upgrading the OS in a couple of months after I finish traveling.
Forgive me not offering to fly anyone anywhere :).

Best regards to all,

Rob