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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] Remove BR2_TOPDIR_PREFIX and BR2_TOPDIR_SUFFIX
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:33:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k507w8y3.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910083010.116ab844@surf> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Thu\, 10 Sep 2009 08\:30\:10 +0200")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> 2) TOPDIR_PREFIX and TOPDIR_SUFFIX don't hurt and are convenient for
 >> some corner-cases. I'd keep them.

 Thomas> As they don't provide any additional value over O=, I'd prefer
 Thomas> to keep O=. One of the reason for which Buildroot is too
 Thomas> complicated today is because there are multiple ways of
 Thomas> achieving the same thing. This multitude of options is
 Thomas> confusing for newcomers.

I agree. I much prefer the KISS principle.

I think the main thing buildroot has going for itself compared to the
other build systems is simplicity. It is (imho) a lot smaller and
simpler to understand and start hacking on for outsiders.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 22:09 [Buildroot] [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Buildroot cleanup Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-07 22:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] Remove the "project" feature Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-08  6:27   ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2009-09-08  6:58     ` Sven Neumann
2009-09-08  7:07       ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-08  7:15         ` Sven Neumann
2009-09-08  7:23           ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-08  7:31             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-08  7:43               ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-08  7:49                 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-08  6:59     ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-08  7:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-08  7:06   ` Peter Korsgaard
     [not found]     ` <20090908092408.787e9cf7@surf>
2009-09-08  7:31       ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-07 22:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] Remove the BOARD/LOCAL feature Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-07 22:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] By default, put the output in an output/ directory Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-09 10:19   ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-09 11:28     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-07 22:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] Remove BR2_TOPDIR_PREFIX and BR2_TOPDIR_SUFFIX Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-09 17:35   ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-09-10  6:30     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-10  7:33       ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2009-09-07 22:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] Rename the output directories Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-09  7:02   ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-09  7:22     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2009-09-09  7:37       ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-08 17:03 ` [Buildroot] [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Buildroot cleanup Will Newton
2009-09-08 19:13   ` Jonathan dumaresq
2009-09-08 21:20   ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-09-09  9:36     ` Will Newton

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