namespaced options variables?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Sunday August 11 2024 12:33:41 Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:

>I seem to have misremembered. Lots of portgroups use namespaces but only for procedures, not options.

And internal variables. That's the use case for me here too; I just use options variables "internally" in a number of cases because of the extra features they provide.

>This makes sense since options are intended to be used by portfiles whereas we've always said that anything in a namespace should not be used in a portfile (though there are many examples of ports that violate this out of necessity that some things in base are not accessible to portfiles in another way). 

If you ask me there isn't much difference from the user point of view between controlling variables organised in fake namespaces (foo.bar) or in real ones (foo::bar). And even from a development point of view there isn't much useful that the latter offer over the former as far as PortGroup and Portfile programming is concerned. Both allow to avoid clashes.

That's also why this isn't really an issue for me, except that I wouldn't mind understanding what changed and if this is just a side-effect or something more.