> On 11 Nov 2016, at 17:10, Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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` :-).
+1 for _DIR for single directories, and _PATH for list of directories. -- J-P Nurmi _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
