On Nov 2, 11:35 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:02 AM, mabshoff
>
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 2, 9:45 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, mabshoff
>
> > <SNIP>
>
> >> > Are you talking about the "sig" files? They seem to be ASCII, so the
> >> > issue is easy enough to fix,
>
> >> Yes, and that's the fix.
>
> > Ok, I attached each .m file into Magma and then checked all .sig files
> > into the extcode repo. Patch is up at #4424 for someone's reviewing
> > pleasure :)
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work. I have changed it to wontfix, and
> posted the following message on the ticket:
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work. Probably the .sig files depend on
> the version of Magma.
Sigh, I was afraid that that might happen.
> I tried applying your patch and got then using
> it as a different user and got:
>
> {{{
> Runtime error in 'AttachSpec': Could not remove the invalid signature
> file /Users/wstein/sage/data/extcode//magma/latex/latex.sig
>
> }}}
>
> Since there are dozens of Magma versions out there, and we can't know
> which one people are using, there is literally *no possible way* to
> solve this problem without the user running a command such as
> {{{
> sage: magma('2')}}}
>
> as a user with write permissions to the extcode/magma directory.
>
> Since the error message clearly states that this is a permissions
> problem, there is nothing further to do really (i.e., nothing on the
> sage side). This is just the way Magma works.
>
Ok, how about a script for the extcode.spkg that attaches each file to
a Magma session in case Magma is installed on the system?
>
> >> > but I consider it ridiculous that a 15+
> >> > year old software package needs write permissions in the same
> >> > directory as a source file to read it.
>
> >> True. Fix it and send them a patch... Oh wait, they currently have a
> >> lame development model that makes that impossible.
>
> > :)
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Michael
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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