Re: [PATCH] multiconfig: Adapt to bitbake switch 'multiconfig' -> 'mc'

[richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org]

On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 10:53 -0700, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> On 6/7/2019 9:30 AM, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > On 6/7/19 11:23 AM, richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 10:51 -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > > > Is there a reason for this change other than aesthetics?
> > > I have had a lot of complaints and in real world use I can
> > > understand
> > > why...
> > > 
> > > > FWIW, we maintain some recipes across several versions of poky,
> > > > so
> > > > this rename is going to cause me some headaches
> > > The mcdepends code is tollerant of either naming. We could teach
> > > cooker
> > > to translate any commandline references so both worked there.
> > > Would
> > > that be good enough to work for you?
> > 
> > Ya, that would be sufficient. I'll work up a patch for that.
> 
> I believe that I originally named it 'multiconfig' to try to make it 
> more explicit for users,

I remember the discussions and I was fairly strongly in favour of
"multiconfig" as well...

> but if people think its more intuitive to use 'mc' I'm not against
> it, using either also works for me.

On balance its proving annoying to people and the feedback I'm getting
is people strongly prefer "mc:", even if it makes me think midnight
commander! :)

Cheers,

Richard