On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> My summary of this:
>
> 1) Maintainer tag: It is a comment - makepkg does not care so nor should
> you
>
> 2) $foo vs ${foo} : they do the same thing (except in rare cases where
> brackets are needed...) - makepkg does not care so nor should you.
>
> 3) "$srcdr" vs $srcdir. The quotes are good for people who build in
> directories with spaces in their name - so it may be good to use quotes.
> But I don't care about people who use spaces in directory names, so I am
> not going to do this. Note the prototype does include quotes...
>
> 4) $startdir/src vs $srcdir. $srcdir is correct. As stated in the
> PKGBUILD man page, there is no guarantee that these will continue to point
> at the same directory in future pacman versions.
Agreed.
