Should we have programs with executable permissions in the distro

[Vasily Chekalkin]

>> 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.

Indeed. What about "#!/usr/bin/env perl"? I'm not sure how it works on Windows.

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Bacek