On 1 July 2024 21:32:10 BST, Marc Culler <marc.cul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I think it would be good to replace misleading messages in sage by accurate
>messages. I offer as an example the following message which occurs if I run
>sage after first running:
> export DOT_SAGE="~/Library/Application Support/SageMath-10-4""
>
>The message I got was:
>
> Your home directory has a space in it. This
> will probably break some functionality of Sage. E.g.,
> the GAP interface will not work. A workaround
> is to set the environment variable HOME to a
> directory with no spaces that you have write
> permissions to before you start sage.
>
>It is false that my home directory has a space in it, and consequently
>setting HOME to a different directory will not solve any problems. So the
>first and third sentences are complete garbage.
>
>I would like to know if the second sentence is true. I ran sage -gap using
>that value of DOT_SAGE and it seemed to work fine. Does it really matter
>to GAP whether DOT_SAGE contains a space? If so, where should I be looking
>for this broken functionality? Is it correct to interpret "GAP interface"
>to mean what you get when you run "sage -gap"?
Not only this. Also, libgap, and GAP packages might have an issue with this. It
used to be a problem in the past, for sure.
Try installing gap_packages and run tests.
Dima
>
>- Marc
>
>PS I am asking because I would like to follow the Python convention of
>using the "~/Library/Application Support" directory as the location of
>user-installed pip packages installed with sage -pip. I would also like to
>arrange for the macOS sage app to organize sage's user-installed pip
>packages by Sage version, not by python version. Multiple versions of sage
>(e.g. 10.2 and 10.3) may use the same python version, but that does not
>mean that the they should share pip packages.
>
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