[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing pychecker

[Chris Barker]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> 2) What is the standard thing to do? Should I add that directory to my 
>> PATH?
>> Or should I add a hard link called "pychecker" from another directory 
>> that

> Add it to you PATH,

Don't add it to your PATH, that's jsut not the "unix way". If you do 
that, eventually you'll have an absurdly lonbg PATH from all sorts of stuff.

make a symlink,

Very good idea, this is the standard approach. Don't make a hard link. 
With a sym link, you can upgrade pychecker and the symlink will point to 
the new one, not the old one, as a hard link will do.

or use "python setup.py install
> --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin"

If this works, it's a good option

> I'm not sure this has even been discussed yet (recently?).  I've 
> actually been thinking about changing the --install-scripts parameter to 
> /usr/local/bin for my PackageManager repository.

I think that's a great idea.

Interestingly enough, on Linux, the pychecker setup.py installs the 
script in usr/local/bin. Someone who understands distutils could 
probably fix this on OS-X very easily.

-Chris

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