From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:35:18 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] a philosophical question about Config.in and "comment" directives In-Reply-To: <55313266.9000600@mind.be> References: <20150417150042.GA5271@free.fr> <55313266.9000600@mind.be> Message-ID: <20150417163518.GC5271@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Arnout, All, On 2015-04-17 18:18 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly: > On 17/04/15 17:00, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Rovert, All, Damn, my keyboard skills really need to be improved upon... :-/ Sorry, Robert... > > On 2015-04-17 08:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day spake thusly: [--SNIP--] > > Well, you are right that "it would make moere sense" from a theoretical > > point of view, and that there is no functional difference. BTW, there > > are other such architectural options, like MMU, that we handle the same > > way as well. > > Just a side note: I personally find it easier to read the way we have it > > now: having the "depends on" directly in the package dependency list > > looks more obvious to me (but hey! I'm kind of a weirdo! ;-) > > Well, then either your first statement that it makes more sense was not true, > or else you don't make sense :-P Well, I never I did make sense in my head! ;-) Seriously: enclosing the whole file inside a big architectural dependency does make sense at a technical level. But I don;t grok it as easily as it is now. I.e. a car is far safer than a motorbike from a technical point of view (it has airbags and safety-belts, can not easily slide on its side with driver stuck between it and the asphalt, is warm in winter and has A/C in summer...). But I'll use my motorbike because I prefer it. ;-) > Note that I also think it makes more sense to have the comment at the top then > at the bottom. So do I. At least, we can agree on that! hehe! ;-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'