On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be>wrote:

> On 04/21/2013 06:36 PM, Felix Salfelder wrote:
>
>> but i'm curious: why doesn't sage simply use $PATH to locate executables?
>> this
>> looks quite involved, what's the point?
>>
> The reason not to use $PATH is that we know for sure which "gap" program
> is executed: we want the want from Sage, not some random other version
> which might be present on the system.
>
> I would support @gap@, but always set to an explicit path, because the
> version matters.


See ticket #12627 for the full discussion.

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Andrew

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