On 22 May 2014, at 00:12, Thomas Klausner <t...@giga.or.at> wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:19:52AM -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>> While we're on the subject of runTests.py, we've got a configure 
>> substitution for the shebang. Is there some platform (MinGW maybe?) where 
>> `#!/usr/bin/env python` doesn't work?
> 
> There are platforms where "python" doesn't exist, only "python2.6",
> "python2.7", etc. Configure could test that for that.
> 
> Even worse, there are platforms where /usr/bin/env doesn't exist; for
> example because it's in /bin/env (Haiku, IIRC).

I meant some platform on which GnuCash runs, sorry. There are dozens of fringe 
operating systems out there, but we have the resources to support only 
mainstream Unix/Linux. We're able to support Microsoft at present only because 
MinGW provides a wrapper that makes it close enough to Unix that GnuCash works.

Regards,
John Ralls
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