[Catalyst] Remove .pl from scripts?

[Christopher H. Laco]

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Bill Moseley wrote:
> I vote for no extensions.  My /usr/bin is full of "programs" that are
> of various types w/o extensions.
> 
> 
>     $file .= '.pl' if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
> 
> or 
> 
>     -add_pl_to_scripts
> 
> or
> 
>     print "You seem to be running on a shebangless system.
>             Add .pl to your scripts? [y]/n: ";
> 

Well, OS scripts are a different story. There, no extension makes sense.
For instance, in FreeBSD, some were converted over time from bash, ro
perl, to c. THeir names not changing was a good thing. I don't believe
that applies to userland perl files with th same imortance.


Now as for no extensions on *nix, and extensions on WIndows, that leads
to more problems. Now when you refer to a script in documentation, you
have to mention that fact that it's not named the same thing on
different platforms.

- -=Chris
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