still no SAS [forwarded message from Dale Steele]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(added Dale back to CC's   --Dirk)

On 14 July 2008 at 22:02, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| >>>>>     on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:23:05 -0500 writes:
| 
|     DE> FYI -- Dale reported back that a test package I prepared
|     DE> (based on current svn ie with my changes) did not work
|     DE> for him.  I'm not sure how to fix this as I cannot test
|     DE> this. From the looks, it should work --
|     DE> /usr/share/ess/etc is the defined location in
|     DE> ess-site.el; and that is where the file now is...
| 
|     DE> Dirk
| 
| Hi Dirk (etc),
| 
| I'm back from vacation as of this evening.
| Thanks a lot, Dirk for handling things while I was offline!

Thanks for the follow-up!

| I've looked at the appended message from Dale Steele,
| and the messages he got look a bit suspicious, effectly being
| produced by code that I had added only a copule of weeks /
| months ago.
| 
| Maybe we (ess-debian + D.Steele) can look at it again tomorrow or so?
| I neither can test it properly;
| on the other hand you can always produce a simple sh-script
| named 'SAS' (or 'sas' ?) in your PATH to mimic things.

There definitely was a bug in the Debian (and Ubuntu) package as we
explicitly deleted Rich's old ess-sas-sh-command at the Debian packaging
level.  But this is now taken care in SVN and a test .deb I prepared that is
at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_5.3.8~svn3915M-1_all.deb 

However, this still didn't fly for Dale.  I would appreciate it if someone
(Martin ?) could maybe try to sort this out with Dale off-line.  I am out of
ideas on this one.

Cheers, Dirk

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