[pacman-dev] [PATCH 00/11] Support VCS URLs.

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Thu Jul 12 11:24:56 EDT 2012


Am 12.07.2012 17:15, schrieb Dave Reisner:
> Just as I told you in IRC, the debug log showed that you're trying to
> stomp on a read-only var. bash will not let you do this even if its
> scoped to a function.

Which is stupid and defies the purpose of scoping.

> We could probably change the name of this var,
> e.g. to "makepkg_version", instead of something so foolishly generic.

Exactly.

Why not give ALL variables in makepkg an ugly prefix, so nobody
accidently uses them. This wouldn't hurt the eyes too much when editing
makepkg.in.

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