> I agree that specifying the location in Linux does not directly help > portability to other OSes running perl, however it may help > to encourage other OSes that ship it to put it in the same place. > [UnixWare 7 ships with perl in /usr/bin/perl (a symlink to > the actual location)].
Im very concerned we don't try and mandate perl too much. Every tiny subrelease of perl breaks something different, and there is no formal grammar for perl to reference against that I can find. Perl is a bigger nightmare than libc variance
