[Pythonmac-SIG] path locations

Stewart Midwinter stewart.midwinter at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 00:18:37 CET 2006


> From: Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>
> Here's where you've deviated from the standard: As a rule, you shouldn't
> out ANYTHING in /usr/bin. that's Apple's job. As you haven't written
> over anything, it's probably not going to cause any problems, but the
> usual solution is to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH instead

Thanks for the reminder.  I had a feeling that we shouldn't put stuff
in /sw/bin, and I am used to using /usr/local/bin on my Linux box, but
it's good to know that others are doing this too.

cheers
S


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