[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] "#! /usr/bin/env" is not "portable." It's Unix-specific.

From: Anton van Straaten <anton>
Date: Thu Nov 23 15:25:21 2006

Shiro Kawai wrote:
> When it matters is, probably, to exchange some reference
> implementations or proof-of-concept type scripts.

I think it goes some way beyond that. Not every packaged application
needs to have a sophisticated install script, and a default that has a
good chance of working in many situations is still useful.

> If the editor's intention of #!-line specification is like
> the latter case, I'm ok with it. Having such a declaration
> is certainly convenient.

That's roughly how I see it.

> If that's the case, however, I'd
> like such intention to be explained in the spec, as it seems
> to have created some confusion.

Agreed.

Anton
Received on Thu Nov 23 2006 - 15:24:01 UTC