On 11/10/2013 04:16 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'd argue the opposite --- the existing shell-script version is entirely
>> useless to developers running on Windows, while they could use a Perl
>> version. Also, we've pretty much locked in the assumption that developers
>> will have Perl.
> +1.
>
It might be a bit more portable if we replaced the shebang lines on perl
scripts with
#!/bin/env perl
That's probably worth considering. MSVC users would still have to call
"perl scriptname" or possibly "\path\to\perl scriptname", but I think
that's OK, and they will have to do that anyway.
cheers
andrew
