On 2016-11-11 10:13, Mitch Curtis wrote: > I'd like to establish some kind of convention for naming > path/directory-related environment variables in Qt, with the hope > that it could be set in stone with e.g. one of these newfangled > QUIPs. [...] So, can we all agree on using "PATH" when naming > environment variables that refer to paths?
I believe that `FOO_DIR` is typical for variables that name a *single* directory. For multiple directories, XDG prefers `FOO_DIRS`, but otherwise `FOO_PATH` seems most common. Examples: PATH (duh) LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH LUA_PATH QT_PLUGIN_PATH LIBPATH COMPILER_PATH LIBRARY_PATH CPATH C_INCLUDE_PATH CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH TMPDIR KDEDIRS XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_RUNTIME_DIR I think a good rule would be single directories should use _DIR if anything (some cases e.g. HOME may be exceptions), and list of directories should use _PATH. Please don't use `FOO_FOLDER` :-). -- Matthew _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
