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back up environment on sage startup #16377
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Author: Ralf Stephan |
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You should never assume that the user can write to |
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Ah thanks, DOT_SAGE would be indeed better. |
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There are several issues:
And could you please state more precisely which problem this solves? |
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I can't say I understand completely what https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/sage-devel/1dpr0__-ssw talks about, but this ticket looks like the wrong solution for that problem. The patchbot simply should not run/compile Sage in a different source tree from what the I don't want to say that this ticket is pointless, but it should not be used to fix the patchbot issue you're having. |
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To fix the patchbot issue, why not run the patchbot outside of the Sage environment, as an ordinary Python program? |
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Thanks for the insight. That appears indeed to be the right solution. So the documentation on http://patchbot.sagemath.org/ that wants the user to use |
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Consequently, a ticket is needed to remove the |
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The handling of the |
The original environment unclobbered by Sage might be needed by subprocesses (e.g. patchbot) so just save it somewhere at the very start.
For the motivation see https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/sage-devel/1dpr0__-ssw
Component: scripts
Keywords: shell, start, sandbox
Author: Ralf Stephan
Branch/Commit: u/rws/back_up_environment_on_sage_startup @
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Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16377
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