On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 09:13:21PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 05:55:24PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > The get_constant function has been recently added but I think the name of > > this is too generic. > > Any idea on another name?
It reminds me of the output of perl -V. We can't call them "configuration variables" as we already use that name for something else. But it is a kind of "configuration". Some ideas: get_build_constant get_build_conf - similar to get_conf get_build_configuration - avoids looking like get_conf get_build_configuration_constant - quite long get_build_configuration_variable get_build_configuration_value - avoids question of whether it is a variable or a constant get_compiled_constant - but not everything in Texinfo is compiled get_constant_conf I like get_build_constant or get_build_configuration_value. I couldn't think of an alternative to the word "build" to represent a certain installed version of Texinfo but there might be one.