The download page at http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/osx/intel/index.html links to two different distributions, with this description:
Pick (if available) your choice of Sage distribution:
*-app.dmg - to get Sage as a Mac OS X application that starts like most other Mac applications
*.dmg - to get the full Sage distribution for traditional Unix command-line like use
Both allow full use of the Sage Notebook and the command line.
The installation instructions at http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/osx/README.txt doesn't give different instructions for the different distributions, and I haven't found any other page that gives additional information.
- If both distributions allow full use and have the same installation instructions, what is the difference between them?
- If one of them can't be opened like a normal Mac Application, why do the instructions say to put it in the Applications folder?
- If one of them can be opened like a normal Mac Application, why do the instructions say to do more than just put it in the Applications folder?
- If the
-app.dmgdistribution is everything in the.dmgdistribution plus something that makes it run like a normal Mac Application, why is the-app.dmgdistribution smaller? - If installation consists of copying it into the Applications folder and setting the program to open it in, how do I invoke sage from a normal terminal session?
- If the UI is in a web browser, can I run Sage as a background service and just use it through a browser bookmark?
