On 2025-04-01 11:58 +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: >> I just wanted to double check if I'm supposed to install them manually, >> or if I missed enabling some options (I looked through the top-level >> meson_options.txt and meson.build files and I don't think I did.) > >For now the status quo is that you have to install them manually, which >indeed isn't optimal. It matches our Makefile, which never installed >those completions, either. But that by itself isn't a good enough >argument from my perspective that it needs to be the same with Meson. Yup that seems entirely reasonable to me, and this was my initial thought. I don't have much of an issue installing them manually. > >The biggest question though is whether distros are aligned enough for us >to provide standard installation paths. That is, do all distros end up >installing bash completion into "/usr/share/bash-completion"? What are >the desired directories for tcsh and zsh completion? > >If there is enough standardization then yes, I totally think we should >start installing completion scripts automatically. Well I can't speak from any sort of authoritativeness here, but for zsh, they are usually installed underneath the datadir (usually /usr/share), then under zsh/site-functions. Of course, I don't know if that's true for all distros. Could we extend meson_options to allow specification of bash/tcsh/zsh completion directories? If they are not empty, I think it would be reasonable to have meson install it automatically. Either way, I personally don't think it's too big a deal but would be a good 'quality-of-life' improvement. Cheers, -- Akshay
