Variant specific package plugins

[shubhbapna]

Is it possible to have package plugins specific to a variant instead of using if ctx.variant.startswith("varinat") everywhere in plugin code

[tiran]

One idea is to check for a function with normalized variant name as suffix, e.g. first look for prepare_source_cuda, then for prepare_source, and then fall back to default_prepare_source.

[dhellmann]

We could do this, but I think it will make configuration of the plugins more complex for users. I'm going to close the ticket, but if we find a definite use case where it solves an issue in the future we can revisit the idea.