-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:26:52PM -0700, Cliff Wells wrote: >> Anyway, regardless of who's correct concerning this issue (we can >> agree >> to disagree), I'm cannot understand why you'd want Python to behave >> differently (from a deployment standpoint) than other languages. > > Numbers ! Only numbers can speak. On my Ubuntu box (standard, nothing > special done to it): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep '#!/usr/bin/env python' /usr/bin/* 2>/dev/ > null wc -l > 33 > > And if we don't look at the language type: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep '#!/usr/bin/env' /usr/bin/* 2>/dev/null | > wc -l > 39
These are all broken and you should report bugs on them. I have reported many for Ubuntu. A system application should only ever depend on the system Python (or interpreter), never on the whims of your $PATH. If you want an application to depend on $PATH, grab a development release and install that in your favorite location. That's when /usr/bin/env is appropriate. Cheers, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAFMoXEjvBPtnXfVAQKC2gQAgiFFH9KGinw3yy9wyAI6p1Hn2Sy+Sb6e x5z3B9kkT99zOl5AxdsaCEPWEIB+/Q2tRJypZXPVe9o7GPMIZETF9RzGIFV/tsmh LQF+lIPbdvXHsK1f1CibuRt3P+ij+EuSWH81FI7uE3SLXine51WRW+Pp+m3+74Xp kEP1dWn1GvE= =NFBv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
