On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> wrote:
I think this discussion should be divorced from this PEP and taken up with the discussion about the PATH and the "last installed wins" issue Martin mentions - only all of them taken together will "fix" this issue - not that I personally consider it particularly broken - more like "sub-optimal" :)
I updated the draft PEP, explicitly bringing Mac OS X and Cygwin within the scope of the recommendation, and excluding PYTHON* environment variable considerations and Windows-related proposals. The Windows section does include a hit-list that may serve as a useful starting point if someone else felt like starting a Windows specific PEP, though. I believe the only remaining decision to be made is whether we actually change the "make install" command and the Mac OS X installers for Python 2.7.2, or leave them alone and tell the distro folks to fix it on their side of the fence. My own vote is a +1 for both, since changing "make install" is fairly easy, and Ronald indicated earlier in the thread that not only is the change to the Mac OS X installer pretty trivial, but that Apple are likely to follow the lead of whatever our default installer does. Full PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ Diff to previous version: http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0394.txt?r1=88743&r2=88753 Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia