>>> Jeremy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I know javascript is, for now, not a usual interpreter, but with >>> spidermonkey and libv8's node.js server, it's certainly growing to be >>> more common. I guess /usr/bin/javascript is a reasonnable name for the >>> interpreter, though for now no package provides it.
>> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't really understand this request. If there's no such binary as >> /usr/bin/javascript, why would any file start with #!/usr/bin/javascript? >> Only files starting with that string would trigger this tag, and that >> string specifically means that there exists some binary named >> /usr/bin/javascript on the system that will run that script. > Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > This bug as been tagged "moreinfo" for over a year, so I am taking the > liberty of closing the bug to clean up the bug tracker. If this > particular request is still of interest to you, please reply to this > email with the relevant information. My apologies, i forgot or did not read Russ answer. CCing to pkg-javascript-devel. There is the /usr/bin/js alternative provided by spidermonkey-bin, nodejs. But i am not so sure it is useful as a "usual interpreter" now, because all scripts doing something with i/o must use smjs or node, so they wouldn't have /usr/bin/js in their shebang. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
