[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3b2 and scripts

[Stuart Bishop]

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Hi.

Just installed a distutils package with scripts and found that
they were being installed to
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/

If this stays this way, the documentation needs to mention that
this directory needs to be added to the path (a symlink in /usr/local
could make this a nicer path if anyone thinks that is important).

If this directory is added to the path, is there any reason for the
MacPython distribution to add anything into /usr/local at all?

I'd vote for nothing in /usr/local, but that is only because I'm
juggling multiple Python interpreters (which would be easy except
that I forgot to request http://www.python.org/sf/677293 be backported
into 2.2.3, making me reinstall Python 2.2 a seperate directory).

I assume people have thought of having the installer or some post
installation script modifying ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist or whatever
the system wide equivalent is to setup paths automatically
as per http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html?

- -- 
Stuart Bishop <zen at shangri-la.dropbear.id.au>
http://shangri-la.dropbear.id.au/
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