Should we have programs with executable permissions in the distro

[Alberto Simões]

On 01/08/2010 14:34, Vasily Chekalkin wrote:
>>> 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.

I really never understood how this one works :-|

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Alberto Simões