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Re: policy should frown on programs in PATH with language extentions (ie, .pl)



Hi

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:25:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
*SNIP*

> I suggest something like this be added to section 11.4:
> 
>     When scripts are installed into /usr/bin or other directories in
>     the PATH, the program name should not include an extension such as
>     .sh or .pl that denotes the scripting language currently used to
>     implement it. There may be rare exceptions to this rule, and this
>     does not apply to scripts in /usr/share or to example scripts in
>     /usr/share/doc/*/examples.

Seconded.

Regards,

// Ola

> -- 
> see shy jo



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