[Pythonmac-SIG] messed up Tiger python install

[Jack Nutting]

On 9/12/05, Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> 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 acceptable. Something like:

"Version 2.4.1 of python has now been installed in /usr/local/bin. You 
probably want to use this new version as the default python, so that other 
python-using programs will find it instead of the built-in version. I can 
take care of this by putting /usr/local/bin/ at the front of your shell 
path. Should I do this for you?"

That way, those of us who are accustomed to managing our own path can do so 
ourselves, while newbies will get it taken care of for them.

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// jack
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