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"Konrad, Martin" <[email protected]> · Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:33:30 +0000

Hi Lewis,
>> rather than the usual "#!/usr/bin/perl" or "#!/usr/bin/env perl"
> 
> I would much prefer the former over the latter, but it seems the latter
> is what has been chosen! This was discussed on Tech-Talk in
>
>  https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2013/msg00098.php
Thanks for pointing us to this thread. I would also prefer the former
for better robustness.

BTW: The Debian Policy Manual also prefers the former [1]. Plus, it says
the script name should not include the .pl extension if it gets
installed into a directory in the system PATH.

It's difficult to meet the sometimes contradictory requirements of all
supported platforms at the same time (Windows needs ".pl" extension
which is in conflict with the Debian Policy Manual). I world consider
some of this customization work the package maintainer's responsibility
(they decide into which directory a file gets installed, they can decide
to remove the file name extension etc).

For now I'm happy that we got rid of the

eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'  # -*- Mode: perl -*-
    if $running_under_some_shell;

craziness and that all Perl files start with some shebang line. That's
certainly a step into the right direction - for all platforms/users :-)

-Martin

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#scripts

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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