Users.Root constant added.

[kardapoltsev]

Also fix string interpolation in another PR, added chdir command to start-stop-daemon.

[muuki88]

This is sweet. The default logging configuration files always rely on this, what makes uninstalling rather messy.

[jsuereth]

Looks great! Thanks much for the fixes.

[kardapoltsev]

What do you think about smth like this:

object Path {
  import RichString.toRichString
  val Root = "/" 
  val Usr = "usr"
  val Share = "share"
}

object RichString {
  implicit def toRichString(str: String): RichString = new RichString(str)
}

class RichString(self: String) {
  def / (other: String) = if(self.endsWith("/")) self + other else self + "/" + other
}

And we cound write

val instalLocation = Root / Usr / Share

[jsuereth]

Well, Path/RichString already exist as types, so it's a bit confusing. I've also learned to be careful around implicits like this. Being too clever can cause issues.

What you probably want, for safety,

case class PathString(path: String) {
   def /(other: PathString): PathString = 
      if(path.endsWith("/")) PathString(path + other.path)
      else PathString(path + "/" + other.path)

   def asString: String = path
}
object PathString {
  implicit def convertToString(p: PathString): String = p.path
  val Root = "/"
  val Usr = "usr"
  val Share = "share"
}

Now you can still write:

val installLocation: String = Root / Usr / Share

However, if you drop the type annotation it gets odd, you'd want to write:

val installLocation = (Root / Usr / Share).asString

Or some other kind of DSLery hacks.

[kardapoltsev]

Thanks a lot for comments!