Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:49:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > >>Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > > >>>-#!/usr/bin/python >>>+#!/usr/bin/env python >>> # >>> # mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM >>> # v0.4b "oedipa maas" >> >>Could you explain why this is necessary or desirable? I looked at what >>env does, and I am missing the point of duplicating bash normal >>behaviour regarding definition of per-process environment entries. > > > Most likely, his python lives elsewhere than /usr/bin, and the 'env' call > results in causing a walk across $PATH to find it.... Assuming that he has env in a standard place... I hope this isn't going to start some rash of efforts to make packages run on non-standard toolchains, which add requirements for one tool to get around misplacement of another. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed May 04 05:57:17 2005
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