1 Aug
2011
1 Aug
'11
7:57 p.m.
On 01/08/2011 15:26, Edgar Fuß wrote:
It's convention, not law I think there's an additional benefit in having Perl scripts end in .pl: Automated queries. It's not only replacing the shebang line. Think of ``who used module Foo::Bar'' or ``does anyone still call Foo::Bar::deprecated''. You would otherwise need a manually maintained list for that.
For information, using an extension for a script in the system PATH must be avoided for a Debian package (see Policy 10.4) Regards, Vincent