[Pythonmac-SIG] Guide to installing Unix-Python on MacOS X

[Jack Jansen]

Bob,
two minor issues:
- Why do you do the chown in the first place? There's no reason Python
can't be owned by you (the installer). Making things root-owned
without good reason to do so is a bit of a nono in unix-circles.
- In stead of the
  sudo mv /usr/local/bin/python.exe /usr/local/bin/python
it might be better to do
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python.exe
That way, if you install a newer build later the "python" executable
will refer to the new one automatically. Oh yes, and I think there's
no reason for the sudo: if you're an administrator you should be able
to write in /usr/local/bin yourself.

All in all I'm very happy with the work you're putting in this
document! I hope you'll be putting it up on the web, or else pass it
to me so I can put it up on the macpython site. It should be helpful
to a lot of people who come to OSX from a Mac background.

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