[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: lets do it really different | let's not a nd say we did.

[Schollnick, Benjamin]

> 1. UNIX and the terminal are not some kind of diseased thing to be avoided
at all 
> costs.Python has a long unixy hertitage that is nothing to be ashamed of,
just see how 
> proud linux users are despite it's rough edges. It's powerful, like OS X
is. OS X is not 
> OS 9 and is never going to be (if we are lucky).

I agree....  OS X is much better in many, many ways....  But it still needs
finishing work, and for Apple to finish optimizing it....  (i.e.  Finder
window, sorted by Kind, with 2-3K worth of files... It resorts after almost
any updates)

> 2. Anyone savvy enough to be writing python scripts is smart enough to
open the terminal 
> and type % cd /usr/local/bin ; ls

Yes, but will they realize it is there?

True story....  I have been dealing on and off again with MPGTX, a mpeg
splitter app.  I did not realize that the \usr tree existed until after I
was forced to unTAR/GZIP the application manually.  (I was testing a patch)

I had assumed it was being installed to \library or as a bundle with the GUI
front end...

Until then I had assumed that \usr == \Users .....

I use the terminal alot, but never noticed that \usr wasn't showing up in
the finder, let alone realizing that it even existed...  (I usually am
poking around \volumes\* doing file manipulation via the terminal)

			- Benjamin