On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
Davide Pesavento <p...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> + # backward compatibility for non-array variables
> >> + if [[ -n ${DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p DOCS 2>/dev/null
> >> 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
> >> + dodoc ${DOCS} || die "dodoc failed"
> >> + fi
> >> + if [[ -n ${HTML_DOCS} ]] && [[ "$(declare -p HTML_DOCS
> >> 2>/dev/null 2>&1)" != "declare -a"* ]]; then
> >> + dohtml -r ${HTML_DOCS} || die "dohtml failed"
> >> + fi
> >> }
> >
> > maybe issue an eqawarn in that case telling people to convert to
> > arrays; some time later make this an ewarn telling non-array support
> > will be removed and again later make this a die :)
> > (if you take that route i would expect you to start converting
> > packages to use arrays)
> >
>
> We have no intention of deprecating non-array variables in qt4-r2
> eclass.
why ? having two codepaths for the same thing, one being inferior,
sounds like a good reason to deprecate the inferior one :)
A.
