On 2014-10-02 11:17, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 13:50 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
On 2014-09-28 11:23, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
The logic for choosing the runtime directory is complicated enough
also without adding PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH into the mix. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
is sufficient for users to control the runtime directory.
PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH has not been documented, so this change doesn't
constitute an interface break.
A quick googling of PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH seems to indicate usage of this
environment variable in at least chromium and enlightenment, and also
recommended in several blog posts and mailing lists, including this one.
It is likely used in several home-made scripts.
I'm hesitant to remove it for that reason.
The argument that "if you use undocumented interfaces, you can only
blame yourself if your script breaks" probably won't change your mind,
so I guess we'll just have to make this a documented interface then.
Well, while not officially documented, we have still advocated the use
of it on this mailing list [1], which to some degree could be seen as
the de-facto documentation of PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH, given the lack of
official documentation saying otherwise.
--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
[1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2012-January/012606.html
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