2015-12-12 1:20 GMT+03:00 Random832 <[email protected]>: > On 2015-12-11, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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= > > env SOME_VAR=some_value command_name > > Or, in most shells, just: > > SOME_VAR=some_value command_name > > > 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. > > Every process has its own environment, normally inherited from > the parent. I suspect the reason they chose environment > variables was so that they can be passed to the top-level build > process and picked up by some subprocess within the build, > without the top-level process having to care about it or > explicitly pass it down the line. >
I suspect that real reason is that you cannot have a common standard for autotools, cmake, plain make, and many other more local variants of building something like cargo or python+distutils/setuptools. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
