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

[Christopher Barker]

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:

$ cat .profile
...
# Setting PATH for MacPython 2.4
# The original version is saved in .profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

-Chris



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