Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Barker
Robert Kern wrote: > But please consider writing clear documentation telling people how to > modify their $PATH, instead. If you do that please be sure to mention that you can also just use: python2.4 at the prompt and in the #! line of scripts. You probably need to put "/usr/local/bin" in the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 12-sep-2005, at 6:45, Robert Kern wrote: > Brendan Simons wrote: > > >> I found this advice before, but as someone who doesn't have a unix >> background, it took me a long time to figure out exactly HOW to >> change >> my $Path variable permanently. Can I suggest that a tutorial be >> lin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Kern
Brendan Simons wrote: > > On 12-Sep-05, at 6:00 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> Patches accepted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/python :) >> >> -bob > > ok, point taken. I'm going to have to brush up on my distutils skills > before I can approach that. The Python interpreter's installer isn't

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Brendan Simons
On 12-Sep-05, at 6:00 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:Patches accepted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/python :) -bob ok, point taken.  I'm going to have to brush up on my distutils skills before I can approach that.  -Brendan--Brendan Simons, Project EngineerStern Laboratories, Hamilton Ontario

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Christofer \"Boz\" Jennings
You guys rock! I reinstalled Tiger, MacPython and TigerPython24Fix... then changed my path. Just for background. I was following some online blog about installing Skencil when I got started. Someone posted a comment there to change links in /usr/bin. SOmeone else said that would be a bad i

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 12-sep-2005, at 15:57, Jack Nutting wrote: On 9/12/05, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patches accepted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/python :) I don't know where the packagemaker configuration file is, but here's a step toward something that would work in postflight: #

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Jack Nutting
On 9/12/05, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patches accepted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/python :) I don't know where the packagemaker configuration file is, but here's a step toward something that would work in postflight: #!/bin/sh dialogText="Version 2.4.1 of python has now bee

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Sep 12, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Jack Nutting wrote: > On 9/12/05, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan Simons wrote: > > Alternatively, can the path be modified by the 2.4 install script? > > No. Installers that do that kind of thing garner well-earned derision. > > > Actually, I think

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-12 Thread Jack Nutting
On 9/12/05, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brendan Simons wrote:> Alternatively, can the path be modified by the 2.4 install script?No. Installers that do that kind of thing garner well-earned derision. Actually, I think that an installer that *asks* if you want it to do so would be quite

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-11 Thread Robert Kern
Brendan Simons wrote: > I found this advice before, but as someone who doesn't have a unix > background, it took me a long time to figure out exactly HOW to change > my $Path variable permanently. Can I suggest that a tutorial be linked > to the pythonmac or undefined.org/packages sites detailing

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-11 Thread Brendan Simons
This is the third plea I've heard from someone who's gotten themselves into real trouble after removing the Tiger-supplied python.  I almost did it myself when 2.3 kept coming up even after I installed 2.4.  We definitely have a communication problem.On 11-Sep-05, at 6:00 AM, Robert Kern wrote:No,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-10 Thread Robert Kern
Christofer "Boz" Jennings wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to this list and to Python who has messed up Python on > Tiger :-( > > I'm on an eMac, G4 1.25 GHz. > > I installed Python 2.4 with TigerPython24Fix. Then I installed PIL. I > wanted to build Skencil but the build failed to find the Ima

[Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

2005-09-10 Thread Christofer \"Boz\" Jennings
Hi, I'm a newbie to this list and to Python who has messed up Python on Tiger :-( I'm on an eMac, G4 1.25 GHz. I installed Python 2.4 with TigerPython24Fix. Then I installed PIL. I wanted to build Skencil but the build failed to find the Imaging package. Looking for that package I noticed