Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 May 2005 13:40:08 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:49:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > >>Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > > >>>-#!/usr/bin/python >>>+#!/usr/bin/env python >>> # >>> # mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM >>> # v0.4b "oedipa maas" >> >>Could you explain why this is necessary or desirable? I looked at what >>env does, and I am missing the point of duplicating bash normal >>behaviour regarding definition of per-process environment entries. > > > Most likely, his python lives elsewhere than /usr/bin, and the 'env' call > results in causing a walk across $PATH to find it....
Assuming that he has env in a standard place... I hope this isn't going to start some rash of efforts to make packages run on non-standard toolchains, which add requirements for one tool to get around misplacement of another.
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