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

[Gerben Wierda]

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.

Just a remark. Changing ~/.profile btw is not what I would expect  
from a package like this. You are installing a system-wide tool and  
you are only opening it to the user that has installed it (instead of  
say, changing /etc/profile). Secondly, there is this thing that you  
are doing something that may be forwned upon (PATH entry added at the  
start of the PATH), so at least it would be good to warn the user  
about it with some panel. Easy to do with a different (open source)  
Mac OS X installer (http://www.rna.nl/ii.html ;-) ;-) ;-)

G