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The python_select Portfile 38929 2008-08-02 23:56:08Z raimue macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: python_select
Version: 0.1
Revision: 4
Category: sysutils
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: raimue
Description: Switch the default python interpreter
Long Description: python_select lets you switch the default python interpreter. python_select symlinks the standard python executables in the MacPorts prefix to the selected version.

Homepage: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/select/
Master Sites: ${homepage}
distname select-${version}
Checksums: sha1 18e1f95c2ddd88210aa52eb696261859af2dc3a4

configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --name=python

# install all files
post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
xinstall -m 644 -W ${filespath} base none ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
}

platform darwin 7 {
post-destroot {
xinstall -m 644 -W ${filespath} python23-apple ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
system "${destroot}${prefix}/bin/${name} -i ${destroot} python23-apple"
}
}

platform darwin 8 {
post-destroot {
xinstall -m 644 -W ${filespath} python23-apple ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
system "${destroot}${prefix}/bin/${name} -i ${destroot} python23-apple"
}
}

platform darwin 9 {
post-destroot {
xinstall -m 644 -W ${filespath} python25-apple ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
system "${destroot}${prefix}/bin/${name} -i ${destroot} python25-apple"
}
}

livecheck.check none

# Documentation for python ports:
# Modify these two lines and add them into your destroot phase
# xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python
# xinstall -m 644 ${filespath}/python2x ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/select/python/

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/python_select
%  sudo port install python_select  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching python_select
--->  Verifying checksum for python_select
--->  Extracting python_select
--->  Configuring python_select
--->  Building python_select with target all

--->  Staging python_select into destroot

--->  Installing python_select

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using python_select with these commands:

%  man python_select
%  apropos python_select
%  which python_select
%  locate python_select

 Where to find more information: