[Distutils] question re: easy_install and macports

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CAOTb1wf9JpwBTxqwmF8GHMC1v3vmHmkDeO7REjeOysnxy_p7-g at mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a quick question regarding easy_install and MacPorts.  I
> tried easy_installing nose while using MacPorts (Python 2.6.7 /
> py26-distribute @0.6.24_0 / MacPorts version 2.0.3) --
> 
> > sudo python -m easy_install nose
> 
> This worked, except it installed the nosetests script into--
> 
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin
> 
> but did not create an alias in--
> 
> /opt/local/bin
> 
> So nosetests is not automatically in the path.  Was this a problem
> with MacPorts, easy_install, or nose?  Whose responsibility was it to
> create the alias?

For Mac OS X Python framework builds, the easiest general solution is to 
add the framework bin directory to your shell PATH.  The python.org 
installers do that by default.  For a Macports Python, you can add 
something like:

export 
PATH=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:$PAT
H

to the appropriate shell initialization profile, like .bash_profile.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org