On 14 August 2013 16:49, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To give an example of where these subprocess issues might matter. > sphinx auto-generates Makefiles that call 'sphinx-build' with no > extension. The sphinx-build command has a setuptools .exe wrapper so > that it will be picked up. I wouldn't confidently assume that for all > combinations of Windows version and 'make' implementation that 'make' > would know how to find sphinx-build for anything other than an .exe. > OK, that's a pretty solid use case, and pretty clearly demonstrates that there will be issues with anything other than an exe. So we come full circle again - I'm pretty sure the last time this came up a month or so ago, someone came up with a scenario that convinced me to give up on executable script files. I definitely will at some point write up *some* sort of document on best practices for wrapping Python code (scripts, apps, whatever) as OS commands, in a cross-platform way. Paul
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