Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified directory slash convention for EAPI6?

[Joshua Kinard]

On 08/31/2014 17:39, Micha³ Górny wrote:
> Hello, developers.
>
> The directory conventions in PMS are confusing developers for a long
> time. Long story short, D, ED, ROOT and EROOT are supposed to contain
> a trailing slash while remaining directory variables don't. This often
> confuses developers and brings repeating mistakes resulting in double
> slashes in paths.
>
> For example, developers often write '${D}/usr/bin/foo', while they
> should '${D}usr/bin/foo'. Of course, this gets more complicated with
> every variable added. For example, if you were to reference
> bashcompdir, you'd have to use pattern substitution to actually remove
> double slashes, e.g. '${D%/}$(get_bashcompdir)'.
>
> More than a year ago, I've suggested that we unify the convention for
> directories and require all of them not to contain a trailing slash
> [1]. The bug contains all the details, including statistics (year old
> but still) and repoman check suggestions.
>
> I would like to suggest finally doing the change for the sake of
> improved consistency. EAPI 6 is a great opportunity to clean up some of
> the historical mess, and make ebuild writing have one pitfall less.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465772

+1

This throws me at random, so unifying the behavior would be nice.  Perhaps
repoman should get a warning added for this?

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Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
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