Random wrote:
> On 2015-12-11, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry, I just do not agree with that spec. Building software using
> > environment variables is brittle and is bound to go wrong. Environment
> > variables can be set for various reasons, and there is hardly any
> > control over them. Generally they are user preferences.
>
> Every environment variable that is set is there for a reason
> (*someone* had to put it there, after all). I don't understand
> why you think there's going to be a user preference called
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Users don't put random names in their
> environment, they put names that actually mean something to
> programs that they use.
>
> Also, "generally they are user preferences" is a bit of a
> stretch. My environment in a new shell window right now
> consists of the following variables:
>
> USER SHLVL OLDPWD XDG_SESSION_COOKIE LOGNAME TERM PATH LANG PWD
> EDITOR HOME MAIL SHELL SSH_CLIENT SSH_CONNECTION SSH_TTY TMUX
> TMUX_PANE VISUAL XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_SESSION_ID _
>
> I think that of those, only VISUAL, EDITOR, and if you really
> stretch the definition SHELL and PATH, are "user preferences".
The name user preferences was not quite right, but you can see that
these values will remain the same no matter what command you run. As
soon as you have something like:
setenv SOME_VAR=some_value
run command
setenv SOME_VAR=
Then there is something wrong. In the case of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH it's
really passing a value to the command being run, and that is not right.
> The problem with using command line arguments is that not every
> build system uses the same command.
So just pass the right one. If you build a program there are lots of
options you need to control anyway, this is just one of them.
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