On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:30:58PM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > On Sat Aug 30 08:06:41 2008, pmichaud wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 07:45:08AM -0700, Allison Randal via RT wrote: > > > As mentioned in RT #49168, I'm in favor of a --language flag, > > > that selects the default PBC/PIR file to run, and passes all other > > > arguments to the ':main' sub in that file. It can also select > > default > > > paths based on the options set the the configuration file for that > > language. > > > > Agreed on the --language concept, although I think I prefer "--prog" > > (mentioned in #49168) to "--language". Not everything we might want > > to invoke in this manner is actually a compiler or language. > > > > If we're agreed on this approach, I'll open a [todo] ticket for it. > > I might even write the patch to make it work. :-) > > > > Pm > > Do the fakecutables satisfy the spirit of this request?
IMO, not really. I don't think we want to treat fakecutables as the official mechanism for creating command-line tools using Parrot. Pm
