On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Justin C. Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:22 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> >> Bill Hart wrote: >>> I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the >>> general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. >>> >>> So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is >>> certainly >>> not *less* standard than -a. >>> >>> I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive review. >>> >>> Bill. >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> I gather OS X did not support -p either, so on OS X, just the 'cp' >> command was used. That would have been fine here actually. It >> basically >> just needs a single file copied. I think -p is universal, but -a is a >> GNU specific flag, which neither OS X or Solaris supports. > > Forgive me if I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure that 'cp -p' > *is* supported on Mac OS X. I've checked this on both 10.4.11 and > 10.5.7. > > Justin >
You are right. I think above the person meant to say that "-a" is not supported on OS X, which is true. This whole problem is because in 2005 when I was creating the first spkg's, I did everything on Linux (and Sage only worked on Linux -- not on OS X yet), and at some point I typed "man cp" and learned about the -a option. I had no idea it wasn't cross-platform then. Shame on me for not checking. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
