Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using array variables in qt4-r2.eclass

[Davide Pesavento]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
> Davide Pesavento <pesa@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
>> > Davide Pesavento <pesa@g.o> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > [...]
>> >> >> +     # backward compatibility for non-array variables
>> >> >> +     if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p DOCS 2>/dev/null
>> >> >> 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
>> >> >> +             dodoc ${DOCS} || die "dodoc failed"
>> >> >> +     fi
>> >> >> +     if [[ -n ${HTML_DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p HTML_DOCS
>> >> >> 2>/dev/null 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
>> >> >> +             dohtml -r ${HTML_DOCS} || die "dohtml failed"
>> >> >> +     fi
>> >> >>  }
>> >> >
>> >> > maybe issue an eqawarn in that case telling people to convert to
>> >> > arrays; some time later make this an ewarn telling non-array
>> >> > support will be removed and again later make this a die :)
>> >> > (if you take that route i would expect you to start converting
>> >> > packages to use arrays)
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> We have no intention of deprecating non-array variables in qt4-r2
>> >> eclass.
>> >
>> > why ? having two codepaths for the same thing, one being inferior,
>> > sounds like a good reason to deprecate the inferior one :)
>> >
>> > A.
>> >
>>
>> Maintaining these two codepaths has practically zero cost, while
>> forcing every ebuild using qt4-r2 to switch to arrays would waste
>> developers' time which is better spent elsewhere.
>>
>> Furthermore, the non-array variant is not necessarily inferior,
>> because it allows you to use bash globbing, brace expansion, etc...
>
> And arrays stopped to allow that overnight?
>

I mean that the following won't work as you might expect:

    DOCS=("*.txt")

Thanks,
Pesa