Completion installations are shown as caveats

[kke]

I'm not a native english speaker, but to me completion installations do not sound like caveats.

If there was a separate section for them, the "actual" caveats from formulas would maybe stand out a little better.

==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

zsh completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> Summary

[MikeMcQuaid]

I agree this is a weird place. @Homebrew/maintainers thoughts on a better place for these?

[jonchang]

I like Locations or Paths. I'd also be interested in implementing something that will help writing these as we use them fairly commonly in homebrew/science.

[woodruffw]

I like Locations or Paths

👍 on this, although I wonder if we can do this somehow without adding another DSL method.

[jonchang]

Could add an optional argument to Pathname.install that would tell Homebrew to report that something special was installed to this location, though I don't know if that's what you mean by not adding another DSL method.

[woodruffw]

What I mean is that we probably don't want something like this in the formula DSL:

def completions
  # return a big string like caveats
end

Since it's just another moving part that, like caveats, probably won't stay in sync with the actual formula.

Augmenting Pathname.install could work, although my first thought was dropping completion information into INSTALL_RECEIPT.json or something similar in the package's cellar. That would give us easy programmatic access and keep completion information in-sync with formula changes by augmenting bash_completion and zsh_completion to automatically update the receipt.

I'm not too familiar with how we use install receipts, though, so feel free to ignore that if it's too hacky/out-of-line with the use case 🙂

[MikeMcQuaid]

What I mean is that we probably don't want something like this in the formula DSL:

Agreed.

I do wonder, though, if renaming this section at this point is going to cause more confusion than it will remove, particularly considering the consistency of the long tail of Homebrew formulae that would need updated.

[ilovezfs]

I think probably the point, at least originally, of putting information about completions into caveats is that in general completions don't work unless you do, or have done, something that we don't do for you.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Closing this just because I don't think we can really change this (admittedly awkward) wording at this point without causing confusion.