From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Belloni Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:28:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] gitorious helper In-Reply-To: <9a8529fc-851d-4302-9198-67a100db0f26@email.android.com> References: <1387988339-17460-1-git-send-email-alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> <20140110163510.1d2c8d8a@skate> <20140429051126.GA32291@piout.net> <9a8529fc-851d-4302-9198-67a100db0f26@email.android.com> Message-ID: <20140429052841.GB32291@piout.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 29/04/2014 at 07:18:08 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote : > Alexandre Belloni schreef: > >After discussing quickly with Thomas, we feel that we can drop it as > >this would not really help with readability. > > Readability wasn't the only reason such helpers were introduced. For github, the download urls changed a few times, and having it coded in only one place made changing this much easier. > So if that us the only reason I prefer to keep this patch. I'm willing to adopt it by the way... > Feel free to adopt it but I'm not sure we can have something easy to use and elegant. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com