On Jun 22, 2006, at 20:10, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > We don't put it in ~/MacOSX/environment.plist because that file > sucks. There's no way to update the value of PATH, you have to > provide a complete replacement. This is too bad because I'd love to > update the environment for all programs.
If the file exists, you could take the path from it, add what you want, and put it back into the file. If the file does not exist, you would have to put the Python stuff plus the system default path in there to make sure that nothing else changes for the user. > Another disadvantage of environment.plist is that not many people > know about it, using it would upset even more people that the ones > that don't like updates to the shell profile. That's indeed a problem. > Tk-Aqua also has some serious L&F issues, which is very annoying > because we're shipping IDLE as the standard python IDE and because > IDLE uses Tk it still looks bad Indeed. I tend to prefer Tk with X11. Is it possible (with reasonable effort) to build the framework binaries with support for X11 rather than Aqua? Or, better yet, provide both in the binary and let the user choose at installation time? > I use DarwinPorts to install unix/x11 tools. Having someone else > hunt down patches to make stuff work on darwin is much more > convenient than doing it myself. But a seperate unix installation > shouldn't be necessary to use Python. Perhaps I should look at DarwinPorts... Konrad. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
