Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Nicholas Riley
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:35:11PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote: > On 9 August 2011 22:42, Ned Deily wrote: > Hmm... for 3.2 and 2.7 I was using Activestate installers not Python.org > ones - so perhaps it's their bug (in which case sorry for the noise). Nope - this is from a new Mac mini that ship

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Ned Deily wrote: > In article , > Ned Deily wrote: > > > In article > > , > > Michael Foord wrote: > > > I don't believe that is actually the case in Lion due to the changes > > > pointed > > > out by Nicholas. > > Odd! So far, this works for me on Lion with the current pyth

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Foord
On 9 August 2011 22:42, Ned Deily wrote: > In article , > Ned Deily wrote: > > > In article > > , > > Michael Foord wrote: > > > I don't believe that is actually the case in Lion due to the changes > > > pointed > > > out by Nicholas. > > Odd! So far, this works for me on Lion with the curre

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Ned Deily wrote: > In article > , > Michael Foord wrote: > > I don't believe that is actually the case in Lion due to the changes > > pointed > > out by Nicholas. > Odd! So far, this works for me on Lion with the current python.org > installer (3.2.1 at least). Perhaps you ca

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Michael Foord wrote: > On 9 August 2011 20:42, Ned Deily wrote: > > > In article > > , > > Michael Foord wrote: > > > I've installed Python on OS X Lion on two computers - one with Lion > > > preinstalled and one upgraded from Snow Leopard. I used both Python.org > > and > > >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Foord
On 9 August 2011 20:42, Ned Deily wrote: > In article > , > Michael Foord wrote: > > I've installed Python on OS X Lion on two computers - one with Lion > > preinstalled and one upgraded from Snow Leopard. I used both Python.org > and > > Activestate installers. > > > > In all cases (I'm pretty

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Foord
On 9 August 2011 20:00, Nicholas Riley 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)

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Ned Deily wrote: > In article > , > Michael Foord wrote: > > I've installed Python on OS X Lion on two computers - one with Lion > > preinstalled and one upgraded from Snow Leopard. I used both Python.org and > > Activestate installers. > > > > In all cases (I'm pretty sure) the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Michael Foord wrote: > I've installed Python on OS X Lion on two computers - one with Lion > preinstalled and one upgraded from Snow Leopard. I used both Python.org and > Activestate installers. > > In all cases (I'm pretty sure) the installation required elevation and the > instal

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Nicholas Riley
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 versi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 8/9/11 1:21 PM, Michael Foord wrote: 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.) I don't believe it is a change. /Library and /System/Library are owned by the system, not you. -- Kevin Walzer Code b

[Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

2011-08-09 Thread Michael Foord
Hey folks, I've installed Python on OS X Lion on two computers - one with Lion preinstalled and one upgraded from Snow Leopard. I used both Python.org and Activestate installers. In all cases (I'm pretty sure) the installation required elevation and the installed Python was 'owned' by root - mean