[Pythonmac-SIG] Steps needed to get cvs2svn working on Panther or Tiger (solution)

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:48 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On 9/18/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>
>> > On Sep 18, 2006, at 21:42 , Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 9/18/06, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> >>> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> >>>>> what shell are you using?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> bash (default shell). But my env has not been changed by the
>> >>> Universal pkg.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> hermione-a:~ gerben$ which python
>> >>>> /usr/bin/python
>> >>>>
>> >>>> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/
>> >>> teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I also would wonder if that would be something that the
>> >>> Universal .pkg
>> >>>> should do. It would mean that I would get a new python when I  
>> call
>> >>>> system utitlities that use Python from the command line  
>> (because it
>> >>>> would have to be inserted at the start of my PATH and that is
>> >>> generally
>> >>>> taken as not the right thing to do)
>> >>>
>> >>> A) system scripts should have the path to Python hard coded:
>> >>>
>> >>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> >>>
>> >>> B) The installer is only supposed to alter your login shell  
>> PATH, so
>> >>> anything called by the system won't be effected.
>> >>>
>> >>>> But anyway, Universal pkg did not set up my PATH for my command
>> >>> line shell.
>> >>>
>> >>> Curious:
>> >>>
>> >>> Ronald and/or Bob: isn't it supposed to have? I know it did mine:
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> There's three different login scripts that bash can use.. The  
>> 2.4.3
>> >> postflight script knows how to patch .profile and .bash_profile...
>> >> but
>> >> if a .bash_login exists and .bash_profile does not exist then  
>> it will
>> >> create a .profile that is never used. Perhaps that is what  
>> happened?
>> >
>> > That is exactly what has happened.
>
> That's easy enough to fix for Python 2.5's installer.

Except for the fact that the release process for 2.5 final started  
about an hour ago. I won't be making changes to a postinstall script  
literaly hours before 2.5 final is released to the public, there's no  
way we'll be able to get enough testing in.

Ronald
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