[Pythonmac-SIG] pythonw

Nathaniel Gray n8gray at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 02:18:54 CET 2005


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:37:06 -0500, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 7, 2005, at 12:34, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:
> >
> > OK, so if I replace the symbolic link from /usr/bin/python to
> > /usr/bin/python2.3 with a link to /usr/bin/pythonw2.3, nothing bad
> > will happen? I dont envision a scenario for me ever having to use
> > python2.3 ever again, if this is true.
> 
> I think that will break #! scripts that don't use env, because pythonw
> is a shell script not an executable.

Hey Jack, how about fixing that?  I've already supplied the patch,
including build system support.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1038911&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Cheers,
-n8

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