On 6/22/06, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't very pleased to see that the installation modifies > my ~/.profile to insert /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ > Current/bin at the front of $PATH. I don't expect any software > installation to mess around with my ~/.profile, and certainly not > without telling me it did so.
I guess this is one of the advantages of using tcsh instead of bash: my .profile (with three separate settings of $PATH for three different Python installations) is blissfully ignored... More seriously, it seems to me that an appropriately worded dialog box near the end of the installation might be preferable to automatically hacking people's .profiles. Then people like Konrad who know what they're doing can override the behavior, while people who blindly click "OK" without reading the message -- well, they're the ones that probably need their profiles updated for them. :-) I understand the motivation in making this change -- it tries to forestall the large number of questions we used to get here along the lines of "I just installed the new version of Python but my scripts aren't seeing it" -- but its covert nature always troubled me. Hardly anyone will think to click "Customize" and look in the package list to turn this behavior off (although maybe my publicizing that feature here will help). -- Russell Finn P.S. I do appreciate the hard work the maintainers have put in, and it's a pleasant change to see the latest Mac OS X installers available on python.org. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
