Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: Running scripts

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:53, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Any particular reason why the script must be executable? I don't think
> there's a font format that starts with #! fontforge ...
Um because that is the code was designed to check for scripts started in
the shell.

That is for a script foo.pe which says "#!/usr/bin/fontforge" gets an
argv of: "/usr/bin/fontforge" "fig.pe".

So the check was just the set of requirements the shell uses to start a
script. I had not intended it to be used any other way, but from ff's
perspective there is no way to tell how the script was invoked.