[Pythonmac-SIG] installer and .profile

[William Kyngesburye]

I just noticed a small issue with the new universal installer.  It  
adds a path to the python bin folder to the user's ~/.profile.

1. The Apple-default bash shell doesn't read .profile (doesn't for  
me). (I think tcsh does, but I always used .login back then)

2. If it doesn't exist, .profile gets created with root ownership,  
since the installer must autorize to install.

3. Symlinks to the python binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin  
anyways.  So really the installer should check if /usr/lcoal/bin is  
in the user's path.

Since a user can choose their shell, maybe it shouldn't be trying to  
add to the user's path, but just tell the user that's what they need  
to do.  Or if there is some way for the installer to figure out the  
user's default shell (I know it's a setting in the netinfo database  
for each user), the installer could intelligently edit the correct  
shell init (ie .bash_profile).

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