still no SAS

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Dale,

On 17 July 2008 at 19:36, Dale Steele wrote:
| Dirk - The latest test package works just fine. M-x SAS launches the SAS 
| process on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation.   Many thanks! --Dale

Super! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and for patiently testing
our sequence of attempted fixes.  Thanks also to Martin for actually finding
a fix.

Ess-Debian:  I'll make this svn revsion a formal upload to Debian.

Dirk

| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > 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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| > 
| > --
| > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
| > 

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