#12627: The spkg/bin/sage script engraves paths to executables
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Reporter: Snark | Owner: leif
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: scripts | Resolution:
Keywords: rd2 | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: R. Andrew Ohana
Authors: Julien Puydt | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by Snark):
Sigh.
First, you still mention "test -x" although I pointed out it's not the
recommended way to check for an executable.
Second, as I already pointed out, my patch makes sage run sage versions by
default if available. And if not available in sage, if they are available
on the system, use that. The only error case is the one where indeed, it
is really not available. That makes sense.
There seem to be a high dose of paranoia in sage developers about
everything that doesn't come out of sage.
You still have to show me why I should be more cautious about running
/usr/bin/kash : after all, sage runs on the system bash and uses the
system libc! And for that last one, there are definitive reports where
that gives problems and failed doctests -- I know it well, it's on
ubuntu/ARM and I did the port!
My point is simple : from a sage-whatever-beta_n to sage-whatever-
beta_{n+1}, 90% of the spkg are the same. So if I could make foo-3.14.spkg
install in $HOME/sage/foo-3.14 and make the rest of sage use that (this is
modularity -- the contrary of a one-block where nothing can move an hair's
width without everything collapsing), then that means I can gain 90% of
build time. And I have the room to have more versions of sage installed
simultaneously.
And maintaining a big chunk of symlinks is a bad solution to a wrong
problem.
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