[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 12-feb-2006, at 20:38, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> The system version is installed in /usr/bin. Or do you mean we should
>> only support some future version where Apple doesn't place python in
>> /usr/bin (which I hope doesn't happen)?
>
> Yes, that was the idea.  /usr/libexec/python, or some other directory
> unlikely to be on the user's path by default.
>
> I don't know about "only support".  "Hope for" was more like it.

If you want to install MacPython's python interpreter as /usr/bin/python
without replacing system compontents the MacPython distribution wouldn't
be useable on any existing OSX version. That's what I meant with  
"only support".

Even if Apple were to move it's python interpreter of the default  
PATH (and
I hope they won't do that), I wouldn't be in favor of installing  
into /usr/bin. It
is very annoying when software gets installed into system locations,  
especially
when you don't quite know what got installed.

Ronald

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