X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: windows paths in shebang lines Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:10:50 -0500 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4D3CA1DA.1000302@cpan.org> <4D3CB2ED.5000801@bopp.net> <4D3CF157.9050705@cpan.org> <4D3ED50B.1060500@cpan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9pre) Gecko/20100821 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.3pre In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 01/25/2011 02:05 PM, Maurice Mengel wrote: > There could a few good reasons to prefer Perl/ActiveState over Perl/cygwin, That's one reason why I was asking Rafael - what was his good reasons. I know of a number of good reasons to favor Cygwin's Perl (and one would be not to have to deal with windows paths in the shebang lines!). > but then this would still be the wrong list. I think promoting Cygwin, including Cygwin's Perl, is of good interest for even this list. > I hear that ActiveState has good support. I don't know about that. The Perl community in general supports Perl very well and most of them "think Unix" and not "Windows". -- Andrew DeFaria A day without sunshine is like night. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple