.profile not installed

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:13 AM, paul beard wrote:

>> So it works for me right now, but i would like to find out why it
>> didn't install by default and is there something else that would have
>> been part of the .profile file that i should add to my .bash_profile
>> file?
>
>
> Anyone know how many times the MacPorts installer/dmg has been  
> downloaded since 1.6 was released? That's a lot of people who have  
> been bitten by this bug. Is there any plan to release a 1.6.1 or  
> 1.7 release to fix it?

Don't know how many downloads there have been, but there have  
certainly been enough emails to the list about the problem.

A problem is that the guide says one thing but the software does  
another. Ideally we should release a new version of the software that  
does what the guide says. Until then, perhaps the guide could make a  
note of the bug and explain to users that they need to set it up  
themselves.

jmpp has done the releases in the past but he hasn't been very active  
in the project of late. Maybe I'll take a look at the dmg release  
process and see if I can manage it.

I'm concerned that there are changes on the 1.6 branch that have not  
been released, and also a different strategy in trunk apparently for  
this same issue. I don't know if trunk current represents out best  
effort at handling this, or whether the 1.6 branch does. I may have  
to test both on a clean system.