Hi Matthew, On 6 Dez., 12:22, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 12/6/10 5:09 AM, Matthew Gwynne wrote: > > Is it possible when compiling Sage, or as an option when running it, > > to force it to always take a particular given directory as the > > configuration ".sage" directory rather than creating it in the user's > > home directory? > > The user writes to things in the .sage directory quite a bit, though. > For example, matplotlib updates cache files in that directory, the > user's sage notebook is written in that directory, and I believe quite a > few other applications write cache files and such into that directory. > Are you proposing another location that each user will have a personal > directory?
I wouldn't recommend a central DOT_SAGE in an installation shared by many people. After all, DOT_SAGE contains many data specific for one user (e.g., command line history). However, exporting the DOT_SAGE environment variable to a non-default value makes sense. I use that on my computer, since at my university the home directories are on an NFS and have a rather small quota, so that I prefer to have .sage on my local disk rather than in my home directory. Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
