Re: [PATCH] perl shebangs: Use /usr/bin/env, not /usr/bin/perl

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Ævar" == Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

Ævar> Change the Perl Git utilities to use #!/usr/bin/env perl as a shebang
Ævar> instead of #!/usr/bin/perl. This makes e.g. git-send-email work if
Ævar> your personal perl has Net::SMTP::SSL, but your system perl
Ævar> doesn't.

Not a good idea in general.

Ævar> With this change all the code in Git that uses a shebang now uses
Ævar> /usr/bin/env, except those things that use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. All
Ævar> the Python code already used it, and some of the Perl code.

Sorry I didn't catch this earlier then.

I often have an "experimental" Perl earlier in my path than the
"official" Perl.  This would mean that I'd get different behaviors
running git from the command line than I would from automated tools, and
it would be relatively confusing.

The official Perl should be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, and that's
the one you should use with Git.  *Or*, give the installer a knob to
configure.

But please don't use env.  Heck, some systems might not even *have*
env.  And some systems have it in /bin and not /usr/bin.  Don't ruin
portablity at this point, please.

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