On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> If we make >> the proposed PATH change script to the installer, we can ignore the >> system Python just as easily as we could if it wasn't there at all. > > It is extremely difficult (almost impossible) to make such scripts > work properly on Unix, with the variety of shells and environments > that people use.
Well, there are really only two flavors of shell - csh and sh. I'm sure it would be quite possible to create a post-install script that did the right thing for 98% of the people who used it. Those lost 2% are Unix geeks who can easily make the required changes by hand, with a bit of minimal documentation. Tom _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
