[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.4 in /usr/local/bin?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:21, Richard Jones wrote:

> On 27/01/2005, at 5:50 PM, Pierre Thibault wrote:
>> I just made an install of Python 2.4 on my machine. The 'README' is 
>> saying that the install is going to take place on /usr/bin but in 
>> reality things were installed in /usr/local/bin'.
>
> If you built it from scratch, it'll configure to go in /usr/local/bin 
> by default, so the README lies. I'd highly recommend you *don't* 
> install to /usr/bin over the top of the Apple Python (or if you do, 
> when you're done reinstate the symlink to make python2.3 the default).

Don't make any attempt to replace Apple's Python in the first place.  
You *will* break things.  py2app, for example, will not correctly 
bundle applications if you install a non-standard Python to /usr (not 
local).

-bob