[Koha-devel] Perl scripts not ending in .pl

Vincent Danjean vdanjean.ml at free.fr
Mon Aug 1 19:57:30 CEST 2011


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


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