Re: What is this rule for?
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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.
Oh, I'm sure they do. I know that renaming binaries can break
compatibility; I'm not arguing that. I'm just pointing out that it's not
impossible to do the right thing.
Transition issues certainly still apply.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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