On Feb 5, 2008 10:57 AM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:43 AM 2/5/2008 -0700, Adam Olsen wrote: > >So why don't we add a windows equivalent of the shebang? Files could > >then start like this: > > > >#!/usr/bin/python2.3 > >#¡C:/python23/python > > FYI, setuptools uses and supports #! lines on Windows, with the > executable path in quotes if it contains spaces. For a given script > "foo", it generates two files: > > foo.exe > foo-script.py > > And the .exe is just a standardized .exe file that looks in an > adjacent -script.py file of the same name for the #! line. > > (This is of course only for scripts generated using > setuptools-specific features.) > > > >A problem with this approach is that, if you only had 2.3 and 2.5 > >installed, both it'd be completely ignored. You'd need to install a > >newer version (2.6 or 3.0) to force the use of 2.3. > > Setuptools works with versions 2.3 through 2.5, but of course that's > because of the .exe wrappers.
Sounds good enough to me. Maybe the only thing "wrong" is people aren't sufficiently informed of how to be version-specific? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
