From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 11:55:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from beaujolais.extremis.net (beaujolais.extremis.net [217.158.56.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6B737B401; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by beaujolais.extremis.net (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 9503472535; Wed, 8 May 2002 18:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 18:55:16 +0000 From: George Cox To: Peter Wemm Cc: Robert Watson , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020508185516.GB53102@beaujolais.extremis.net> References: <20020508075543.A5E5838CC@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020508075543.A5E5838CC@overcee.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Nethack: You feel like someone is making a pointless Nethack reference.--More-- X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE (i386) X-Subliminal-Channel: Fnord X-Y-Z: Now I know my ABCs, won't you sing along with me? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08/05 00:55, Peter Wemm wrote: > > improve exposure. Do Perl applications typically hard code paths, or just > > rely on Perl to "know where to look"? > > We have several choices.. From installing a symlink pointing to wherever > the default perl package is, through to a simple redirector that searches > $PATH and/or looks in a few well-known locations. Heck, python often uses > "#! /usr/bin/env python". This works for perl scripts too. We have mailwrapper(1). How about perlwrapper(1)?! h0h0h0 best; gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message