On 22-jun-2006, at 15:38, Russell Finn wrote: > 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...
You shouldn't have said that, this is a bug in the installer and now that you've told me this I'll fix it. (insert evil grin here). > > 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. :-) Apple's installer doesn't allow for custom user interaction from the installer, at least not without makeing it impossible to run the installer from the command-line (or through Remote Desktop). I will however add a note about this behaviour to the ReadMe message at the start of the installer, including instructions to turn this feature of. > > 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. It is cool that OSX is a first-class citizen again. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
