[Pythonmac-SIG] Install location

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On 10-apr-2006, at 23:14, Trent Mick wrote:
>
>> The old (now deprecated) Mac "Python IDE.app" was never included in
>> ActivePython.
>
> Good for you! I hope we can completely remove it for Python 2.5  
> (and my
> the universal build also doesn't install it)

I'd bet they had to exclude it for licensing reasons anyway.

>> There was discussion a while back to change the MacPython  
>> installer to
>> NOT put symlinks in /usr/local/bin, but instead put the full
>>     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin
>> on the user's PATH (either doing so automatically or showing the user
>> how) so that setup.py-installed script would get on the PATH as well.
>>
>> Does the universal MacPython build do this or is it still the plan
>> to do
>> so? I was planning to move from using /usr/local/bin to the full
>> framework path in a future ActivePython.
>
> We do both at the moment: install symlinks in /usr/local/bin and make
> sure that the directory inside the framework is on $PATH by editing  
> the
> shell profile of the user.

Also note that both of these features are optional in the installer.

-bob