still no SAS

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 July 2008 at 08:43, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> "DS" == Dale Steele <dsteele at lifespan.org>
| >>>>>     on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:10:58 -0400 writes:
| 
|     DS> I'm a neophyte, but did just notice that when I run the
|     DS> ess version installed from CRAN:
| 
|     DS> deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu
|     DS> hardy/
| 
|     DS> that there is a missing '/' in 'etcess' when I do M-x
|     DS> SAS
| 
|     DS> I get the message... ESS [SAS(SAS):
|     DS> /usr/share/ess/etcess-sas-sh-command
| 
| 
| Thank you Dale,
| 
| that's exactly the problem I have mentioned in that other e-mail
| to Dirk.
| It's a problem in the current *.deb
| and I've now found the culprit:  debian/rules has explicitly set
| the directory without a trailing '/'
| 
| I have now changed that (svn rev 3916).
| Dirk, could you build a new *.deb file for Dale to try?

Smokes, how embarrassing. I should have caught that.  My only lame excuse is
that it was code from Camm's time as maintainer. Thanks for finding that!

This now works thanks to Martin -- here is the prompt following M-x SAS:

ESS [SAS(SAS): /usr/share/ess/etc/ess-sas-sh-command] starting data directory? ~/

New test package is at 
	http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_5.3.8~svn3916M-1_all.deb

Martin: Try it on Ubuntu; I still don't know why your install-info does not
play nicely when mine always does (and Dale's too, seemingly).

Cheers, Dirk

 
| Martin
| 
| 
|     DS> Best Regards.  --Dale
| 
| 
|     DS> 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!
|     >> 
|     >> 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.
|     >> 
|     >> Regards, Martin
|     >> 
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