Hi Martin. Thanks for making the script. A couple of comments:
1) If the user is running csh not tcsh and doesn't have any dotfiles,
then I think we want to create .cshrc NOT .tcshrc. Also, if
there are no existing dotfiles then creating .cshrc is OK for
tcsh users as well. And at some future time when this little
app exists, the first advice to a user who is having path trouble
will be: run FinkNewUser.app . (So if in the meantime somebody
created a .tcshrc for them, things can be repaired at this stage.)
2) If we implement something like a FINKINIT environment variable
to be set the first time that /sw/bin/init.csh is run, then maybe
we should check that in addition to /sw/sbin. If only one of the
two is found, the user can be warned about an unusual setup which
they will need to fix.
3) For bash/sh/zsh users, the correct thing is ". /sw/bin/init.sh"
(the "source" command doesn't exist for those shells). I think
we might want to set up a similar default for them, using .profile
and some other options.
4) Imagining the hypothetical user who is interested in the gimp and
abiword and gnumeric, for example, we might also attempt to get
X11 set up correctly for fink. (Although maybe that should wait
until version 2 of this app.) For example, because .xinitrc is
executed by /bin/sh, I've got ". /sw/bin/init.sh" in mine to make
sure that my xterms get the right paths.
-- Dave
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