[Pythonmac-SIG] PATH manipulation and /usr/local/bin

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Feb 10 03:53:21 CET 2006


Since we're going to manipulating the PATH with the installer, should  
we still bother with the symlinks in /usr/local/bin?  We definitely  
want the Framework's bin dir on the PATH because that's where scripts  
will be installed to... so the /usr/local/bin links seem a bit  
redundant.  If we do this, then the Python installation process is  
completely self-contained except for the Applications dir.

Maybe "make frameworkinstall" should still install the symlinks for  
compatibility with people building their own from source, but I'm not  
sure if it's better to keep doing it or to just document that the  
behavior has changed.

-bob



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