Re: [Gnumed-devel] Does bootstrapping / upgrading databases sometimes need mxDateTime ?

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-07-31, at 2:11 AM, Jim Busser wrote:

and if I call

MacBook-2:~ djb$ /usr/bin/env python

vs if I call

MacBook-2:~ djb$ python

the[ result is] the same, and if I query the os which python

MacBook-2:~ djb$ which python

/opt/local/bin/python

Actually, the problem might not have been the broken symlink… I rather suspect my root env $PATH sequence

/usr/bin:…:/opt/local/bin

was something I eventually over-rode… python_select was neither installed by me until after, nor would it have made a difference outside of MacPorts which I did not reconfigure.

For future reference, the python that would load in a Mac OS could come from any among

/usr/bin <--- Apple's

/opt/local/bin/ <--- MacPorts'

/usr/local/bin/ <--- MacPython's

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin <--- MacPython's

/sw/bin/ <--- Fink's

The Apple-provided build of Python is installed in

/usr/bin/python

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

$ ls /usr/bin/ | grep python

python <------- currently running 2.6.1

python-config

python2.5

python2.5-config

python2.6

python2.6-config

pythonw

pythonw2.5

pythonw2.6

$ ls -al /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/

drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel  204  9 May 14:17 .

drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel  204  9 May 14:17 ..

drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel  272  9 May 14:17 2.3

drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel  374  9 May 14:17 2.5

drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel  374  9 May 14:17 2.6

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    3  9 May 14:16 Current -> 2.6

… which python would not know to access MacPort's mxDateTime (if installed) here:

/opt/local/var/macports/software/py26-mx-base

MacPorts installs in

/opt/local/bin/

MacPython installs in

/Applications/MacPython\ 2.5 <--- folder

/usr/local/bin/python <--- symlink

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework <--- Python executable and libraries.

The installer adds this location to your shell path.

To uninstall MacPython, you can simply remove these three things.

mine is old:

$ ls /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin | grep python

python --> symlink to 2.4

python2.4

pythonw

pythonw2.4

some links:

MacPorts - http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell

MacPython - http://docs.python.org/using/mac.html

Fink - http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/install.php#setup

-- Jim