#16377: back up environment on sage startup
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Reporter: rws | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.3
Component: scripts | Resolution:
Keywords: shell, start, | Merged in:
sandbox | Reviewers:
Authors: Ralf Stephan | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: | c611382d5e0f71bb2d3adfc056bc390c3f136ef2
u/rws/back_up_environment_on_sage_startup| Stopgaps:
Dependencies: |
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Changes (by jdemeyer):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
Comment:
There are several issues:
1. Re-entrancy: when running different Sage processes, the environment of
only 1 will be kept.
2. Quoting: The textual output of `env` is not suitable, since `\n`
characters in environment variables cannot be reconstructed correctly.
Assuming you need this for Python, why not use Python to store the
environment in a Python pickle for example?
3. Why did you copy the `DOT_SAGE` stuff to `src/bin/sage`? Why not simply
store the environment inside `sage-env`?
And could you please state more precisely which problem this solves?
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16377#comment:6>
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