Ability to separate property name with "_" for environment variables

[szpak]

Bash, Fish and probably many other Linux shells don't allow to use . (dot) in an environment variable name. Therefore it is not possible to separate plugin name and property name.

export OVERRIDE_pitest.targetClasses=foo

bash: export: `OVERRIDE_pitest.targetClasses=foo': not a valid identifier

_ (underscore) could be used as an replacement.

[quidryan]

Underscore is also how Gradle specifies properties as environment
variables: ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT__prop_=somevalue (
http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/tutorial_this_and_that.html)

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Marcin Zajączkowski <
[email protected]> wrote:

Bash, Fish and probably many other Linux shells don't allow to use .
(dot) in an environment variable name. Therefore it is not possible to
separate plugin name and property name.

export OVERRIDE_pitest.targetClasses=foo

bash: export: `OVERRIDE_pitest.targetClasses=foo': not a valid identifier

`_" (underscore) could be used as an replacement.

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[bmuschko]

@szpak Would you be interested in working on a fix for this?

[szpak]

@bmuschko I can add it to my open source project's contribution TODO list, but it is already very long and it would not have a high priority as I don't use mentioned feature. I just spotted it when I tested parameter quoting for #3.

[jmcgarr]

We are doing some housecleaning and we consider this plugin "feature complete". Since this is an enhancement, we will accept PR's but won't be able to prioritize this enhancement. Otherwise we will close this issue.