New submission from Russell Owen <reo...@users.sourceforge.net>: The Mac installer alters the user's $PATH to put /Library/Frameworks/Python.Framework/Versions/Current/bin on the $PATH before /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. This is a good idea in my opinion.
But the installer *also* installs numerous symlinks in /usr/local/bin. These symlinks are redundant with altering the $PATH. Thus they are redundant. They are also make it difficult to switch versions of python because it's tricky to know which symlinks should be deleted (and the list may depend on the current version of python). This is problem for me because I often have to switch versions of Python while building binary installers for packages such as matplotlib. My request is for the Mac python installer to leave /usr/local/bin alone. For if there is a need to add symlinks to /usr/local/bin that I'm not seeing then my request is for an easy way to switch versions of python or at least get rid of the symlinks, e.g. a python version switcher script or symlink deletion script. ---------- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: Macintosh messages: 126661 nosy: reowen, ronaldoussoren priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Mac installer need not add things to /usr/local type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10964> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
