On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, mabshoff
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> On Nov 2, 9:24 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kevin Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I'm still unclear about the philosophy of permissions.
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>> >> I downloaded sage 3.1.4 source and compiled from source. As root. Into
>> >> /usr/local. Because I wasn't sure how to make the installation global.
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>> >> And today I tried (as a non-root user)
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>> >> sage: magma('sqrt(2)')
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>> >> [yes, I know it should be Sqrt but I'm guessing that isn't the problem]
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>> I've made this trac ticket #4424:
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>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4424
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> Are you talking about the "sig" files? They seem to be ASCII, so the
> issue is easy enough to fix,Yes, and that's the fix. > but I consider it ridiculous that a 15+ > year old software package needs write permissions in the same > directory as a source file to read it. True. Fix it and send them a patch... Oh wait, they currently have a lame development model that makes that impossible. > <SNIP> > > Cheers, > > Michael > >> > William >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
