Re: [Texi2html] merge of texi2html in texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:40:22PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I can't see why 
>     /usr/bin/env perl 
>     would be better than the path of the executable.
> 
> Because then installing texi2html on system X and moving it to system Y
> simply by copying files is more likely to work.
> 
> And, me turn that question around: why is better to include the path of
> the executable?  Prima facie, /usr/bin/env will work on more systems
> than any particular /usr/bin/perl, /usr/local/bin/perl,
> /opt/foobar/perl, etc.

Because one doesn't know if the perl is the same than the one
used for configuration, and this could even open security issues. I think 
that it is better to have a repdroducable wrong path than a 'random' one.

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Pat