Thanks for clarifying.

No, I don't agree. Barring fancy "if os.platform" games in setup.py,
scripts will be platform-independent Python code. From "Distributing
Python Modules" section 2.5, "Scripts are files containing Python
source code", and as such, should follow the normal rules for Python
code (from the language reference section 2.1.2, "In source files, any
of the standard platform line termination sequences can be used").

On Windows, that's the end of the story. I believe Unix is the same,
although it's possible that the #! line processing may rely on \n line
endings - I can't comment on this.

The question here is not about the scripts themselves, but rather
about how they are installed. My view is very simple:

- Scripts should be named with a .py extension
- On Windows, they should be installed with a .py extension
- On Unix, I'd be happy with a .py extension, but some Unix users hate
extensions on commands, and dispute this. (Hence either renaming or
wrapper suggestions :-)).
- There is some debate as to whether "wrappers" should be generated
(shell script on Unix, exe on Windows). I'd prefer not, some people
like them. Ideally, it should be user-configurable, but that's going
to be messy in the case of bdist_xxx installers.