On 2011-08-16 00:13, Jérémy Lal wrote: >>>> 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.
Hi On a related note, I noticed we also got #623265, which is a request for adding "node". "smjs" seems new to me; though looking at the current "emitted" tags[1] for "unusual interpreters" I do not see any use of "smjs". "node" does appear, but (as far as I can tell) never with a valid #!-line (they use #!node). Admittedly I did not check if this #!node referred to "nodejs" or "node". ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/unusual-interpreter.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
