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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: dealing with executable shell scripts |
Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:21:51 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Paul Elliott wrote:
How will Microsoft Windows File Manager and KDE's Dolphin know how to open the proper program for the file if the file lacks a proper file extension? BobBut if you don't remove the extension, and it is in the $PATH varriable, you won't be able to get your program into debian: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts
This is fine and good for scripts which are formally installed, but while they (originals) are in the source tree, there are definite benefits for scripts to have a useful extension. This is particularly true if people build in the source tree so that scripts and binaries may be intermingled.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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