Re: Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999

[Joerg Schilling <yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: David Korn <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>> Everybody supports #! - why not standardize it?
>> 
>> Keld
>> 
>> 

>I don't support #! because it puts absolute pathnames
>inside scripts.


This is really important: 

        #!/usr/local/bin/perl

may not work because perl is not present (in this case we may say
that the 'loader' os mising).
It may also fail because perl is in /opt/local/bin/perl

It may be a good idea to standardize paths for interpreters.
This seems to be a good idea because more and more Linux guys
are putting #!/bin/bash into shell scripts.

Sot there should be an aggreement about which interpreters
may be used at all (because they are part of a standard system)
and where they need to be located.

Jörg

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