Hi Jifl Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>> Rather than increase the complexity of the #! magic still further, I >> think it now makes sense to revert to a simple "#! /usr/bin/tclsh" >> within our Tcl scripts. However, this would break compatibility with old >> Cygwin installations providing only tclsh8*.exe or cygtclsh80.exe. >> >> Any objections? > > Yes, it may not be in /usr/bin. I don't mind the cygwin-specific cygpath > bits being dropped, but I'd still want it to be found from the PATH by some > means. Have you ever encountered a Linux system where tclsh is not accessible at /usr/bin/tclsh? Or were you thinking of portability to other operating systems? I note your (old) post to the Cygwin list which implies that /usr/bin/tclsh is usual for UNIX-like operating systems: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00007.html John Dallaway
