[sage-devel] Re: sage always executes the binary found in SAGE_ROOT

2015-04-19 Thread leif
On 04/19/2015 11:42 PM, ggrafendorfer wrote: > On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:28:49 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: > > On 04/19/2015 06:42 PM, John Cremona wrote: > > Do you have a reason for having SAGE_ROOT set at all? I don't. > > That's exactly the purpose of a *user-set* SAGE_ROOT: To r

[sage-devel] Re: sage always executes the binary found in SAGE_ROOT

2015-04-19 Thread ggrafendorfer
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:28:49 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: > > On 04/19/2015 06:42 PM, John Cremona wrote: > > Do you have a reason for having SAGE_ROOT set at all? I don't. > > That's exactly the purpose of a *user-set* SAGE_ROOT: To run a Sage > installation *somewhere else* in the filesys

[sage-devel] Re: sage always executes the binary found in SAGE_ROOT

2015-04-19 Thread leif
On 04/19/2015 06:42 PM, John Cremona wrote: > Do you have a reason for having SAGE_ROOT set at all? I don't. That's exactly the purpose of a *user-set* SAGE_ROOT: To run a Sage installation *somewhere else* in the filesystem hierarchy. It's probably a bit surprising that that even works with (e