[BRAINSTORM] shebang fixing framework

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Wed May 1 19:21:57 UTC 2013


On 1 May 2013 20:18, "Oliver Heesakkers" <freebsd at heesakkers.info> wrote:
>
> Op di 30 apr 2013 12:38:21 schreef Baptiste Daroussin:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For a while now: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/51152we
> > are looking for a framework/helpers to help patching scripts shebang so
> > that they fit where the interpreters is on FreeBSD.
> >
> (...)
>
> In there you wrote a patch using /usr/bin/env. Why not stick with that?
I'm
> quite fond of this technique as it's clean and portable.
>
> Portability might not be that important when working on a fix for ports
alone,
> but still makes sense to me.

On the contrary, it teaches good habits to people.

Writing portable code also means it's less likely to break.

Chris


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