Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/13/11:47:03
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:
> On 13 Sep 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>
> > P.S. How about renaming Cygwin Perl to "perl" instead of "perl.exe"?
>
> If you are worried about name clashes, you're better off moving the
> ActivePerl directory to the front of your path (in /etc/profile, for
> example).
No, not really. ActivePerl and Cygwin Perl are *different* programs.
You know which one you want when you invoke it, not when you set up
your PATH; they really must have different names.
Under your suggestion, the name for ActivePerl would be "perl" and the
name for Cygwin Perl would be "/usr/bin/perl". This makes it
impossible to write a portable script between Unix (where perl might
really be "/usr/local/bin/perl") and Cygwin.
We don't happen to have any such scripts, so your suggestion works for
us and is what I plan to do. But it really isn't the "right" answer.
Neither is my suggestion, really, but for different reasons :-).
- Pat
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