Re: [PATCH] Try 2: Allow PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"

[Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:02:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not get this whole business.  Why would you even want to
> support that to begin with?

The biggest problem being that on macs it is typical to have two copies
of perl installed (/usr/bin/perl and /opt/local/bin/perl with
DarwinPorts or otherwise).  It'd be nice to have a way to tell git
makefiles to put #!/usr/bin/env perl at the top so it just pulls
what is first in the path rather than having to hardcode it to either
/opt/local/bin/perl or /usr/bin/perl.

Say you are packaging a mac os x package of git.  Now for the user to
run something like git-svn they'd need the svn bindings obviously, but
of course, some people install them against their system perl, lots of
people install them against their darwinports or otherwise, and it'd be
really nice to just have those various perl scripts use whatever the
person has set up (going by what they have first in their path).

- Andy

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