Re: [PATCH] Environment: Change reporting "nowhere" as "magic hat" to user

[Rasmus Villemoes <ravi@prevas.dk>]

On Fri, Nov 29 2024, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM Andrew Goodbody
> <andrew.goodbody@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 28/11/2024 15:12, Alicja Michalska wrote:
>> > Make string more user-friendly
>>
>> I disagree. I can make a guess as to what 'Loading Environment from
>> nowhere' means. To me it suggests that it has not found anywhere
>> additional to load an environment from. It is a bit awkwardly phrased
>> but it can be understood and it at least sticks to reality.
>> As for 'Loading Environment from a magic hat' - I have no idea what that
>> is trying to convey and that lack of meaning is not, IMO, user-friendly.
>
> I have the same opinion as Andrew.

Seconded. Or rather thirded [*].

If anything, the message could be changed to say "from default", "from
built-in", "from build-time default" or something along those lines else
that conveys the message that the environment comes from something
defined at compile time.

Rasmus

[*] I was pleasantly surprised to see that that actually exists:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/third#Verb