-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:36:50 +0100, Hans Meine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> [snip - distutils should leave #!/usr/bin/env python alone] >> >> Comments? (I first posted this to distutils-sig but was told that >> distutils >> is a bit neglected there, so I decided to try to push these simple >> patches in >> via python-dev.) > > How about a distutils installation command line option to tell it > to use this > behavior? People with unusual environments can select it. This would be best I think. There's a related problem here. Many operating systems (e.g. various Linux distros) provide system scripts written in Python and they incorrectly use /usr/bin/env. The problem is that if you have your own version of Python earlier in your $PATH, you can break these scripts. This happens when say your /usr/local/ bin/python doesn't have the packages that your /usr/bin/python expects. I've hit this quite a few times on Gentoo for example. In these cases, you really do want the #! line to point to the OS's version of Python rather than whatever random installation is on your $PATH. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRd8//XEjvBPtnXfVAQLZKQP+NvcjMIT4tCZtOIPWo8Kj1JMp5iX0Nqib BBXPgDtncJ6VvITclbYLAmitPhwkDddHXgNIHoj2lY9HJildfOkDQxVpDRTvrEvd hlIW4z7S6SmlrvxJYSB2jGSpkNkVRo8UpZKsmU0BWFBE9t6Tnw+ofItuKIF1TlWS unSo4LceXFo= =wiLG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
