[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312089] Request: bash-completion version envvar

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Bugs item #312089, was changed at 2009-11-17 23:33 by Sung Pae
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Sung Pae (guns-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Request: bash-completion version envvar 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Hello,

Since the bash-completion project provides a good deal of core functionality, it would be nice as a third party completions author to have the bash-completion version in an environment variable (perhaps BASH_COMPLETION_VERSION or BASH_COMPLETION_RELEASE).

Are there any plans on providing this, or arguments against it?

Cheers,
Sung Pae

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Comment By: Sung Pae (guns-guest)
Date: 2009-11-19 17:03

Message:
Testing for extant functions is fine, but the current functionality and content
of certain existing functions and variables have already diverged from Ian
Macdonald's version, and even from the initial release of this project's 1.0.

I suspect with the ambitious goals of 2.0 this is only going to continue.
Testing functionality and content is more complicated than testing a version
string, and would take unnecessary cpu cycles. It would be more convenient at
that point to embed similar functions into my third-party files, rather than
having a dependency on this project.

I am hoping to greatly increase the number of completions available for commands that are not appropriate for distribution with this project, and would like to have a good way to leverage `bash-completion', instead of having to duplicate or embed it.

Cheers,
Sung Pae

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Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2009-11-19 15:09

Message:
I'd personally rather recommend 3rd party completion authors to test presence of actual functionality (existence of functions they're about to use, for instance) instead.

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