Re: [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2023, 02:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1WDh7wbYW1+xdW5Rds7dnDtz7-aGy17pSynxVmAYo4dw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230405213020.M231170@dcvr>

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 4:50 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

> (Only tested GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, though).  This (and
> `env perl') will fail if distros someday decide to start
> using `perl5' as the executable name.

When that happens you can just do `ln -s perl ~/bin/perl5`.

This is similar to what I did with the horrendous python3 transition.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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