Could we get a CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS to complement CARGO_PKG_VERSION? #2441
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Hm how should we encode this as an environment variable? Perhaps comma separated? I guess it'd be pretty rare for someone's name to have a comma in it. |
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Is there anything wrong with doing it like in Cargo (with double quotes) minus newlines: Do double quotes in environmental variables cause issues? |
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I suppose we could also do that, yeah, just depends on how fancy we want to get. |
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Oh hey, looks like I'm not the only one who wants this! |
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This will allow crates to use the CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS env variable to get a colon seperated list of the authors declared in the manifest. Closes rust-lang#2441
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Add a new CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS environment variable This will allow crates to use the CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS env variable to get a comma seperated list of the authors declared in the manifest. Closes #2441
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CARGO_PKG_VERSIONis useful to auto-configure app version in cmd line arguments.clap-rs has
crate_version!()macro which reads the version from the environment instead of specifying it twice and possibly forgetting to update it.It would be useful to have a
CARGO_PKG_AUTHORS.It's true that authors isn't likely to change for small projects, and only rarely for large ones but it would still help with DRY and prevent larger projects from missing credits.
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