[Pythonmac-SIG] why does the Mac installer hack the user's .bash_profile?

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Mon Apr 11 17:13:45 CEST 2011


Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> BTW. I've talked with Ned about this feature at Pycon and we'd like to
> move to a python-select command that gives you a command-line tool for
> managing the path to the current python (simular to gcc-select or
> xcode-select).  That way it should be possible to do away with
> automaticly patching the shell profile.

How about a Preference Pane?  I could probably remember how to code one
up with PyObjC and Python.

Bill


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