SHAPE_STDVAR(7)

💖 SHAPE_STDVAR(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the shape_stdvar page — it's living in the Miscellaneous Information Manual and it's genuinely one of those glow-up files that holds your whole project together. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

shape_stdvar — shapeTools RMS project wide variant definitions. it's giving "one file to rule your variants", fr fr. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this file contains all the common variant definitions you'd want to use in a software development project that's being supported by the shape release management system. basically the stdvar file defines a variant raster for an entire development project. and the way this central definition facility works is that it unifies the naming and the semantics of all your supported system variants. iconic behaviour honestly. 💅

Stdvar is meant to be included into the Shapefiles of any part of the developed system — via shape's include mechanism, obviously. and the definitions inside stdvar should be carefully designed and maintained for each supported project. no throwing things in there and hoping, bestie, that's not the vibe. 🙈

what do they usually cover? glad you asked:

• variant control for all the hardware/operating system platforms you're gonna support
• variant settings that produce different qualities of generated code — think debug or optimized

Enclosed in the shapeTools distribution, you'll find the actual stdvar file used in the development of the shape toolkit itself. 🎀 this one is a great starting point for developing your own variant raster. at minimum it helps you learn the definition syntax. and otherwise, if you want a description of the syntax of variant definition parts, go read the shape(1) manual. iykyk. ✨

🎀 FILES 🎀

• $(SHAPELIBPATH)/stdvar

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• shape_RMS(1)
• shape (1)

okay that's the whole page, bestie. go forth and variant responsibly. 🌈

sign-off time 🫶 — this beauty is dated 12.10.126 and belongs to the SHAPE_STDVAR(7) era. mwah. 💖