-On [20080502 07:51], Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >To my mind, the Python interpreter installed by a package as >distributed with the OS *is* OS territory and belongs in /usr/bin/.
That's the difference with a distribution, such as Linux, and full OSes , such as BSDs or commercial Unix variants. They prefer to keep a pristine state for the OS vendor files versus what the user can opt to install himself, hence the /usr/bin - /usr/local/bin separation. Same for sbin, lib, and so on. It effectively guarantees you can nuke /usr/local without ill consequences for your OS. Different philosophies, but after having spent more than 10+ years on too many Unix and Unix-like systems I know the importance of platform portability a bit too much and hardcoding a shebang sequence is not the solution in general. Using env is the, arguably, best solution available. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
