[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: For your eyes only - MacPython 2.3b2 installer available

[Chris Barker]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 09:47 AM, Lance E Sloan wrote:
> Sorry if I'm behind the times, but this reminds me of a change I'd 
> like to see in how MacPython's installed.  I'd like all the stuff 
> normally installed in /usr/local to be installed in 
> /usr/local/python-2.3.  And /usr/local/bin/python would be a symlink 
> to /usr/local/python-2.3/bin/python.  I like to keep all the parts of 
> a package together in one place.

I'm confused. The only stuff installed in /usr/local/bin is a bunch of 
symlinks, ultimately to:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/

Which is the OS-X version of /usr/lib. This seems totally reasonable to 
me, or would you really put sym links to symlinks to symlinks?

The exception is pythonw2.3, which is a one line script, so I have no 
problem with it living in /usr/local/bin, though I suppose that could 
be a symlink also.

-Chris


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