On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:50:37 -0500, Yanick Champoux <champ...@pythian.com> wrote:
> [OTHERS] > - change the shebang line of examples to the more modern '/usr/bin/env > perl' > [RT74001] Personally I really really hate this change App::Ack was the first I noted to make this horrid change and I always revert the shebang line to reflect my production perl I (very) often work on "other" perls than the one that is installed and to make testing these with modules (like DBI, DBD::Oracle and many many more, I temporary change my $PATH to have the perl I am testing first In that perl, App::Ack is NOT (yet) installed. For some/many scripts, it doesn't really matter if the script is installed or not, but for all scripts that invoke modules it *does* matter. I certainly do NOT see this change as "more modern" Perl has been configured to use $Config{startperl}. Use it! $ perl -V:startperl startperl='#!/pro/bin/perl'; -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/