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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1012:
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I think Noah's got a good point on accessing the original variables but we
should keep the aliases. For people *not* versed in internals or the build
system "localstatelibdir" is about as WTF as possible compared to dbdir. I
would say maybe list the "user friendly" versions first, then the build system
names second (though keeping -V and -h first).
I'd disagree on changing the name to couchenv though. In my experience its a
pretty consistent pattern for these scripts to be named $projectname-config.
Changing it seems like it'll just be more WTF fodder.
> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Randall Leeds
> Assignee: Randall Leeds
> Fix For: 1.2
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch
>
>
> Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks
> in the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle
> various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and
> portable way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the
> CouchDB library files.
> Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a
> separate script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to
> discover important CouchDB installation paths.
> As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support
> for Windows.
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