I just noticed a small issue with the new universal installer. It adds a path to the python bin folder to the user's ~/.profile.
1. The Apple-default bash shell doesn't read .profile (doesn't for me). (I think tcsh does, but I always used .login back then) 2. If it doesn't exist, .profile gets created with root ownership, since the installer must autorize to install. 3. Symlinks to the python binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin anyways. So really the installer should check if /usr/lcoal/bin is in the user's path. Since a user can choose their shell, maybe it shouldn't be trying to add to the user's path, but just tell the user that's what they need to do. Or if there is some way for the installer to figure out the user's default shell (I know it's a setting in the netinfo database for each user), the installer could intelligently edit the correct shell init (ie .bash_profile). ----- William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ "Those people who most want to rule people are, ipso-facto, those least suited to do it." - A rule of the universe, from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
