Issue 38309: Avoid creating duplicate PATH entries with the macOS installer

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Title:	Avoid creating duplicate PATH entries with the macOS installer
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Components:	Build, macOS	Versions:	Python 3.9, Python 3.8

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Status:	open	Resolution:
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Assigned To:	ned.deily	Nosy List:	ned.deily, rhettinger, ronaldoussoren
Priority:	normal	Keywords:

Created on 2019-09-28 18:40 by rhettinger, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg353471 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2019-09-28 18:40
The macOS installer updates .bash_profile to add the current python version to the PATH. The problem is that it doesn't check to see if that work has already been done in a previous installation. So, as a person install successive beta releases, release candidates, a final release, and then maintenance releases, the PATH variable grows and grows. As it stands now, a manual edit is required every after every update/upgrade.

msg353471 - (view)

Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer)

Date: 2019-09-28 18:40

The macOS installer updates .bash_profile to add the current python version to the PATH.

The problem is that it doesn't check to see if that work has already been done in a previous installation.  So, as a person install successive beta releases, release candidates, a final release, and then maintenance releases, the PATH variable grows and grows.

As it stands now, a manual edit is required every after every update/upgrade.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2022-04-11 14:59:20	admin	set	github: 82490
2020-12-06 20:02:50	ronaldoussoren	set	nosy: + ronaldoussoren components: + macOS
2019-09-28 18:40:52	rhettinger	create