.profile not installed

[paul beard]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Is reading the guide a realistic expectation for new users? better to output
a message to the console or in the installer, and if you go to that much
effort, may as add the post-install step to fix it.

>
> 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.
>
>
That would be excellent.

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at gmail.com>
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