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.
>
> >> 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.
>
> >> And today I tried (as a non-root user)
>
> >> sage: magma('sqrt(2)')
>
> >> [yes, I know it should be Sqrt but I'm guessing that isn't the problem]
>
> I've made this trac ticket #4424:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4424
Are you talking about the "sig" files? They seem to be ASCII, so the
issue is easy enough to 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.
<SNIP>
Cheers,
Michael
> > William
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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