Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Andreas Tscharner <starf...@sunrise.ch> writes: > >> This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows >> systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script >> to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it >> GreatPerlScript.pl If the extension .pl is linked with a Perl >> interpreter in Windows, he'll be able to run it on both systems without >> a prepending "perl" > > If he names it GreatPerlScript on Unix and GreatPerlScript.pl on Windows, > he'll be able to run it on both systems as GreatPerlScript.
Yes. And those scripts that would run on Windows and expect GreatPerlScript.pl, but do not run on Unix *only* because the pl is missing - those script probably don't exist. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
