From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 16:52:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BDB37B403 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 24063535E; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:52:31 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jordan DeLong Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Joseph Scott , Mark Murray , Paul Richards , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD References: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 May 2002 01:52:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Jordan DeLong writes: > Seems that neither symlink nor redirector is neccesary; portable > perl shebangs use #!/usr/bin/env perl to search $PATH for it, and > if the local sysadmin wants they can make a symlink. Most Perl scripts use '#!/usr/bin/perl'; also, using a redirector has the very nice side effect of clobbering the old Perl binary. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message