On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:48 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On 9/18/06, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: > On Sep 18, 2006, at 21:42 , Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> On 9/18/06, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Gerben Wierda wrote: >>>>> what shell are you using? >>>> >>>> bash (default shell). But my env has not been changed by the >>> Universal pkg. >>>> >>>> hermione-a:~ gerben$ which python >>>> /usr/bin/python >>>> >>>> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ >>> teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current >>>> >>>> >>>> I also would wonder if that would be something that the >>> Universal .pkg>>>> should do. It would mean that I would get a new python when I call >>>> system utitlities that use Python from the command line (because it>>>> would have to be inserted at the start of my PATH and that is >>> generally >>>> taken as not the right thing to do) >>> >>> A) system scripts should have the path to Python hard coded: >>> >>> #!/usr/bin/python >>>>>> B) The installer is only supposed to alter your login shell PATH, so>>> anything called by the system won't be effected. >>> >>>> But anyway, Universal pkg did not set up my PATH for my command >>> line shell. >>> >>> Curious: >>> >>> Ronald and/or Bob: isn't it supposed to have? I know it did mine: >>> >>>> There's three different login scripts that bash can use.. The 2.4.3>> postflight script knows how to patch .profile and .bash_profile... >> but>> if a .bash_login exists and .bash_profile does not exist then it will >> create a .profile that is never used. Perhaps that is what happened?> > That is exactly what has happened.That's easy enough to fix for Python 2.5's installer.
Except for the fact that the release process for 2.5 final started about an hour ago. I won't be making changes to a postinstall script literaly hours before 2.5 final is released to the public, there's no way we'll be able to get enough testing in.
Ronald
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