On 20/12/13 15:30, Jeremy Heiner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Andrew Gregory > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/19/13 at 03:31pm, Jeremy Heiner wrote: > >>> -#! /usr/bin/python2 >>> +# (no '#!' here because configure picks PYTHON) >> >> What is the point of removing this shebang and changing the mode? The only >> thing that accomplishes is making it impossible to run directly. > > The intent was stated in the commit message as "to discourage > well-intentioned reversion"... I.e. without this change it is more > likely in the future that someone will submit a patch that says > "Makefile.am can be made simpler by removing the $(PYTHON) from > PY_LOG_COMPILER since pactest.py is executable." Besides, I wager you > and me are the only ones who have run pactest directly in the past 6 > months. It's just so much more pleasant to let 'make check' run it and > format the output nicely.
I'll take that wager! $ history | grep pactest.py | wc -l 146 Allan
