On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > > #! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world?
The following URL: http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=%23%21%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fperl&q2=%23%21%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fenv+perl&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us Suggests firmly that the answer to that question is yes. What worries me particularly about the proposed change is that it requires administrators to touch the scripts of their user's files as part of an upgrade -- this is not a good situation for an ISP to be put in. That or to immediately re-add the symlink on the basis that the practical reality is that (despite some limited documentation to the contrary), that's the way everyone runs perl. I have the suspicion that while removing this symlink may encourage programming cleanliness, it's going to shoot a lot of feet unnecessarily. Also, since env isn't a built-in, it means exec runs twice for every perl script, not once... Robert N M Watson _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
