Can't run Self 4.4 on OS X

Question

I followed the instructions at http://selflanguage.org/download/index.html for installing Self 4.4 on my OS X box. The Self-4.4.pkg installed without issue, but there is no "...small shell script at /usr/bin/Self".

The files that are supposed to be in /Libarary/Self are there, but double-clicking on them does nothing. Double clicking on the Snapshots is equally futile.

How do I get this thing to run?

Answer 1

This currently is a bug in the Installer that should get fixed soon. In the meantime,

• you can create the file /usr/bin/Self yourself with the following content

  #!/bin/sh
  /Library/Self/0/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self $@
  

• you can use the actual Self executable directly: /Library/Self/0/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self

(in both cases, you should use the -s command-line switch when you want to load a snapshot)

• you can try the experimental OS X Self starter (see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/self-interest/message/2856) that is available for download at http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.5/experimental/SelfVM-30Mar12.zip