Re: What is this rule for?
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Andreas Tscharner <starfire@sunrise.ch> writes:
>
>> This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows
>> systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script
>> to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it
>> GreatPerlScript.pl If the extension .pl is linked with a Perl
>> interpreter in Windows, he'll be able to run it on both systems without
>> a prepending "perl"
>
> If he names it GreatPerlScript on Unix and GreatPerlScript.pl on Windows,
> he'll be able to run it on both systems as GreatPerlScript.
Yes. And those scripts that would run on Windows and expect
GreatPerlScript.pl, but do not run on Unix *only* because the pl is
missing - those script probably don't exist.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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