[Nix-dev] Reconsidering dash in package names

[Shell Turner]

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply map foo-bar on a derivation to
foo_bar as a shell variable? Are there any significant cases where
this would be problematic?

On 10 October 2014 22:39, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> derivation {
>   inherit foo-bar;
>   buildPhase = ''
>     use $foo-bar...
>   '';
> }
>
> Apart ${foo-bar}.
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 October 2014 22:56, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dash in package names are cool, because they map to the real package
>> > name.
>> > However I just found a breaker: bash does not support variables with
>> > dash.
>> > $foo-bar or ${foo-bar} or whatever does not work.
>>
>> I don't understand. Why/when do we need bash variable _identifiers_
>> named like packages (with dashes)? And what values would those
>> "package name variables" contain?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bjørn Forsman
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