[sage-devel] Place .sage directory somewhere other than home?

2010-12-06 Thread Matthew Gwynne
Hi, We are building sage as part of a development environment which we'd like to be isolated (as much as possible) from the rest of the system, and on which users might have system-wide versions of sage other than the one we installed in this special environment. Is it possible when compiling

Re: [sage-devel] Place .sage directory somewhere other than home?

2010-12-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Matthew, I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, but here goes... On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Matthew Gwynne mathew.gwy...@gmail.com 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

Re: [sage-devel] Place .sage directory somewhere other than home?

2010-12-06 Thread Matthew Gwynne
Hi Minh, This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! The reason we want to specify a different directory is we have a special Sage installation which we don't want to interfere with the system-wide one. This installation is likely only to be used by a single user (the user who installed our