On 9 August 2011 20:00, Nicholas Riley <njri...@illinois.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:21:17PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote: > > In all cases (I'm pretty sure) the installation required elevation and > the > > installed Python was 'owned' by root - meaning any changes (e.g. > > installation into site-packages) must be sudo'd. > > > > This is a change from previous versions of OS X. Is this known, and is it > an > > issue? (I chown'd everything back to me to get round it.) > > Yes, it's an intentional decision, made for security reasons: > > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_7.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010355-SW16 > > Right, I believe this is the specific change:
- Many folders in the System domain that were previously owned by the admingroup are now owned by the wheel group. Nothing we can do about it then I guess. Thanks. > The only inconsistent part is that /Library/Java is still > admin-writable; /Library/Java/Extensions contains jars which end up on > the classpath of all Java applications, so not allowing the equivalent > thing for Python seems a bit strange. This might just be linked to > the removal of Java as part of the base system, though. > > You could only install Python packages as an admin user (without sudo) > if they didn't try to create any scripts, which ended up in > /usr/local/bin which isn't admin-writable even on Snow Leopard. > > Now I just install everything in a virtualenv and am generally > happier. > Well yes, but that means you probably need pip and virtualenv as a minimum. It was installing these that I noticed the difference. Michael > > -- > Nicholas Riley <njri...@illinois.edu> > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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