On Sep 12, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Jack Nutting wrote: > On 9/12/05, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan Simons wrote: > > Alternatively, can the path be modified by the 2.4 install script? > > No. Installers that do that kind of thing garner well-earned derision. > > > Actually, I think that an installer that *asks* if you want it to > do so would be quite acceptable. Something like: > > "Version 2.4.1 of python has now been installed in /usr/local/bin. > You probably want to use this new version as the default python, so > that other python-using programs will find it instead of the built- > in version. I can take care of this by putting /usr/local/bin/ at > the front of your shell path. Should I do this for you?" > > That way, those of us who are accustomed to managing our own path > can do so ourselves, while newbies will get it taken care of for them.
Patches accepted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/python :) -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
