On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 8:20:35 AM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote: > I really don't like the idea of messing with profiles, especially system > profiles. There is nothing standard about them. > > Understanding how paths work is fundamental to using command lines. We > will just have to insist that users learn this minimum, especially if they > are doing a setup.py install. If they can't handle that, they should do a > package install. >
Yes, I understand both points there....but history is proving that they can't handle that, and they are still doing setup installs, and they're still being very frustrated by the result. This kind of thing is exactly what the profile.d hooks in the shell startup sequence was designed for. Drop one file in there and 100% of those problem reports goes away, as do so many hours of people struggling os trivia they have no ability nor interest in learning. Is there any actual downside of appending to $PATH ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/047f6557-4687-4d8d-a753-b36e74e74339n%40googlegroups.com.
