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

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Bugs item #312089, was changed at 2009-11-18 07:33 by Ville Skyttä 
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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: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2009-11-19 23:09

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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