Installer issue with existing bash profile

[acangiano]

The Liftweb installer for Mac OS X generates a .bash_profile file whether .profile exists already or not. As a result of this, the shell will ignore the preexisting environment variables defined by .profile. The installer should detect the presence of .profile, and perform an append operation instead.

[indrajitr]

Haven't seen the details but Macport installer does something very similar. Could be useful.

See the function write_setting() in http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight

[timperrett]

bah - this issue is actually arisen from my background... I didnt realize that some people use .profile to store their configuration - I thought everyone used .bash_profile... not to worry, its just a case of changing some of the installer code to check for a .profile as well as .bash_profile.

[indrajitr]

All peace :)

[timperrett]

doh - tottaly forgot this was outstanding... will get to it in the next few days.

[timperrett]

Updated installer profile checking. Closed by c4f020afda7f1ab1fb0002fa10d3e2dec8317858

[github-importer]

Imported from GitHub: http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/issues/43/find

[github-importer]

Imported from Assembla: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/tickets/43