We wrote:
ERROR: install_emptydir keyword argument "install_mode" permissions string must
be exactly 9 characters, got "4" in the form rwxr-xr-x
Let's change this around to be easier to read.
Also, 1-based numbering was used (for components) and 0-based for "bits".
And actually the "bits" are not bits, but octal digits. So say "permissions
character 1", "permissions character 2".
And finally change "must be … if provided" to "can only be". (If it isn't
provided, it "is not", so the sentence is still valid. The user will only
get this error if they provide something, so we don't need to be super precise
and say "if provided". And then we avoid confusing the reader whether
it's "if provided" attaches to the the "False" or to the whole sentence.)
The previous commit bd2fcb268b
accidentally used the wrong var so the param name was missing,
leading to an error of "unrecognized arguments" for the
datadirs parameter value.
We ended up passing a NoneType as the program binary, which is a very
awkward way to communicate an error when failing to write a basic
package version file.
There were two allowed kwargs that were unused, I've dropped them for
now, though I need to check if they were documented. If they are then we
need to deprecate them to remove them, otherwise we'll just leave them
removed.
This does not convert the build side, or remove any of the checking it
does. We still need that for other callers of custom target. What we'll
do for those is add an internal interface that defaults things, then
we'll be able to have those callers do their own validation, and the
CustomTarget validation machinary can be removed.
Fixes#9096
This will happen as we transition from doing the conversion in the
function body to using the KwargInfo to make that change. If we get one
just return it.
In the comparison methods of Target. There are several problems with the
old implementation:
1. It's not idiomatic
2. It can match on things that It shouldn't (like a Compiler, which has
a `get_id() -> str` method, but not one that we should compare with
Targets
3. It confuses mypy, which doesn't handle hasattr
Jussi Pakkanen
Daniel Mensinger
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Eli Schwartz
Dan Streetman
Dylan Baker
Xavier Claessens
Christian Clauss