[Distutils] install_scripts and install_data commands

[Michael Muller]

Tony J Ibbs (Tibs) wrote:
> I'm only following this with half a mind at best (sorry), but Bastian had an
> email that contained:
> 
> > >But I don't think we should rely on everyone using the
> > >"#!/usr/bin/env" hack, either: the first python on the path isn't
> > >necessarily the right one.
> > The "first python on the path" is the correct thing for the user,
> > otherwise the path is wrong. So "/usr/bin/env pyton" yields the correct
> > interpreter to execute.
> 
> Do please remember the problem on Dec Unixes (which appears to be) that if
> the environment is large (i.e., many environment variables) then
> /usr/bin/env falls back to *printing* the environment variables, instead of
> executing the given program (gods know why, but this is Dec).
[snip]

That's not the only problem, apparently different systems are undecided as
to whether "env" belongs in "/usr/bin" or in "/bin".  Also, considering that
other operating systems have their own ways of implementing the spirit of
the "#!" hack (and they're usually pretty bad at it), I think the final
script really needs to be generated during installation.

See this URL for the complete discussion on #!/bin/env:

http://x29.deja.com/dnquery.xp?search=next&DBS=1&IS=%22/bin/env%20python%22&ST=QS&offsets=db99p8%021%01db99p1%021%01db2000p1%022%01db99p2%026%01db98p3%024%01db98p4%022%01db99p4%021%01db98p5%021%01db2000p4%021%01db99p5%021%01db99p6%021%01db99p7%024&svcclass=dnserver&CONTEXT=958173312.1618477065

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