I heavily rely on users being able to specify environment variable overrides (or 'defaults' more often) for command-line arguments. I'm referring to generic XXX=1 type stuff on the command line. If that doesn't apply to task specific arguments then I don't (personally) care.
Patrick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Jim Weirich wrote: > I have received a suggestion to remove checking the environment for > the value of a task argument. For example, given: > > task :sample, [:path] do |task, args| > puts args.path > end > > will print out the value of the environment variable PATH. The > requester comments that the feature can cause bugs that are difficult > to track down. Upon reviewing his comment, I tend to agree with him. > > So, is anyone taking advantage of this feature? Would anyone be upset > if we remove it? > _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
