Should we have programs with executable permissions in the distro

[Lucian Branescu]

2010/8/1 Alberto Simões <albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>:
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> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Indeed. What about "#!/usr/bin/env perl"? I'm not sure how it works on Windows.
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> I really never understood how this one works :-|

I thought that was the canonical way to do it. All python scripts I've
ever seen had #!/usr/bin/env python. It's the option most likely to
run everywhere.