>>>>> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:05:09 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Yes, unfortunately some eclasses support DOCS only as an array, >> others only as a space-separated list. >> >> IMHO, when such code is touched, it should be changed in a way that >> both forms are supported, i.e. to behave like the EAPI 4 default. > And IMHO all that 'others' should be modified to support bash > arrays. I guess a better solution would be to have an install_docs (or whatever it'd be named) function in eutils.eclass so that other eclasses could just call it. This should be identical with the EAPI 4 default, i.e. the second half of _eapi4_src_install() in Portage. It doesn't make sense to have duplicate code in many eclasses. > Or bash should be modified to support using space-separated lists as > arrays because the current behavior is ridiculous. I would already be happy if there was an easier way to check the type of a variable than to parse the output of "declare -p". ;-) Ulrich
