UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Mon Oct 24 20:37:32 UTC 2011


=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> writes:
> 2011/10/24 Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>:
>> Using env has always been a hack (and overhead, especially on otherwise
>> short shell scripts).

> Yeah, this solution has its drawbacks, but it also has undoubted
> advantages. Generally speaking it is better for end users to use
> #!/usr/bin/env php/python/whatever in scripts.

Why?

This whole thing seems like make-work for packagers, and big
compatibility problems for users, for negligible benefit to either.

			regards, tom lane


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