Should we have programs with executable permissions in the distro

[Nicholas Clark]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:06:02AM +0200, Gerd Pokorra wrote:
> Changing the first line of files which starts with "#! perl" would be
> nice.
> 
> Does it have any disadvantage to set it from "#! perl" to 
> "#!/usr/bin/perl"?
> 
> Also: "#! parrot"  ->  "#!/usr/bin/parrot"
> 
> This is my favorite.

Surely the #! for perl should be the path of the perl used to run Configure.pl,
and the #! for parrot be the path parrot will be installed to?

/usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/parrot may not even exist.

Nicholas Clark