[Qt-qml] QML and Unix #!/path/to/interpreter

Wed Apr 21 02:55:02 CEST 2010

> QML could be an extremely nifty tool for writing simple script style
> applications without compromising in the user interface front.
> Supporting the #! syntax would make it even more attractive, at least
> to me. And even more so to the hordes of Meego hackers already banging at
> the gates ;-)

It's long past time that bash, or whatever shell you use, learned to do what other shells (like Window, KDE, GNOME, etc.), and so learned what a MIME type is, and what to do with it.

#! is magic implemented by *exec* itself, and that's not what you really want, right? (i.e. you don't care if QProcess can't magically run QML files). It would also required that you chmod+x your QML files (yikes). But you just want your shell to know what to do with a *.qml file, right?

Otherwise, why not also:

#!/usr/bin/firefox
<html>
...

??? (amusingly, on my system, the above doesn't even run firefox, because /usr/bin/firefox is itself a shbang, and shbangs can't call shbangs [so much for THAT "abstraction"]).

Personally, prepending "qml " to execute QML files is fine for me and I don't need bash improved ;-)

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Warwick