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Re: Script interpreter locations



> I agree that specifying the location in Linux does not directly help
> portability to other OSes running perl, however it may help
> to encourage other OSes that ship it to put it in the same place.
> [UnixWare 7 ships with perl in /usr/bin/perl (a symlink to
> the actual location)].

Im very concerned we don't try and mandate perl too much. Every tiny
subrelease of perl breaks something different, and there is no formal
grammar for perl to reference against that I can find.

Perl is a bigger nightmare than libc variance


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