[Brett Powley wrote]
>  * the MySQL install doesn't add /usr/local/mysql/bin to the PATH,  
>  which can cause issues for other things expecting MySQL to be there
>  * ActivePython's install doesn't add /usr/local/bin to the PATH, and  
>  if it's not in your PATH before /usr/bin, then things looking for the  
>  default install of Python get confused

Yah, that is a tough problem on Mac OS X. Unfortunately Apple didn't
really provide a clean way to add stuff to the user's PATH. Modifying
their .profile (or .bashrc or .cshrc) isn't very clean. Creating and
modifying ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is perhaps cleaner, but I seem to
remember it had issues. (For one it only adds to that *one user's* path
and not system wide.)

Future ActivePython's may do more to try to add itself to the user's
PATH. The MacPython list, BTW, is moving towards putting the deeper
install dir on the PATH:
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin
because this is where new scripts installed via the usual "python
setup.py install" get placed. ActivePython will likely go the same way.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/gettingstarted.html#macosx

Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Mick
TrentM@[...].com
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