On 23 September 2010 17:55, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The script searches the files in the current directory, checking
> whether the first line contains "python" and "#!".  If so, it replaces
> that line with "#!/usr/bin/env python".  So if the package has
> installed a python script, this makes sure it calls Sage's python.  I
> suppose it is possible that a package could install a python script
> (e.g. for its front end) without python being present on the system
> yet.
>
> So rewriting it using bash or sh or perl or some other prerequisite
> might make the most sense.
>
>  John

Thank you John.

In that case, I think it's better to just remove 29-line
'sage-make_relative' completely and move its functionality to the
426-line bash script ((sage-spkg) that calls  'sage-make_relative'

It makes no sense to me to call one script from another like this.

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