Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261652AbVECTz4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261657AbVECTzy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 15:55:54 -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 Message-ID: <4277B778.5020206@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:40:08 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Matt Mackall , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark References: <20050430025211.GP17379@opteron.random> <200505021614.j42GEufG008441@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200505021614.j42GEufG008441@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 37 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/