From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4277B778.5020206@tmr.com> References: <20050430025211.GP17379@opteron.random> <200505021614.j42GEufG008441@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Matt Mackall , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 03 21:51:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT3P9-0000Gr-J5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 21:50:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261658AbVECTzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261657AbVECTzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:53 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:10894 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261652AbVECTz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:29 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (oddball.prodigy.com [127.0.0.1]) by oddball.prodigy.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j43JtBp07394; Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:15 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu In-Reply-To: <200505021614.j42GEufG008441@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:49:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > >>Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > > >>>-#!/usr/bin/python >>>+#!/usr/bin/env python >>> # >>> # mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM >>> # v0.4b "oedipa maas" >> >>Could you explain why this is necessary or desirable? I looked at what >>env does, and I am missing the point of duplicating bash normal >>behaviour regarding definition of per-process environment entries. > > > Most likely, his python lives elsewhere than /usr/bin, and the 'env' call > results in causing a walk across $PATH to find it.... Assuming that he has env in a standard place... I hope this isn't going to start some rash of efforts to make packages run on non-standard toolchains, which add requirements for one tool to get around misplacement of another. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me