From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] core: allow for custom, local help; rearrange package-specific help (branch yem/help)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:01:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310220120.03655e61@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E0B327.70807@mind.be>
Hello,
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:35:03 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> This is where I have a different opinion. I don't see a problem with "mixing"
> (it's actually appending) with the normal buildroot help. For the user, it makes
> no difference if it's internal or external. And all the additional documentation
> and special handling is really not worth it for such a corner case, IMHO.
I do fully agree with you. We want the simplest possible solution here,
because we don't want:
1/ to enforce too much things
2/ to have to write tons of documentation in our manual to document
such a silly / corner case aspect
Please, let's stop over-engineering things. Keep It Simple Stupid.
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 22:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] core: allow for custom, local help; rearrange package-specific help (branch yem/help) Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/8] core: add the possibility to provide help for local, custom rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:35 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 20:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-11 0:01 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] core/pkg-utils: add a macro to pretty-print a help entry Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:37 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 9:31 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-03-10 20:27 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 20:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/8] core/pkg-generic: add help about package-specific rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] package/busybox: use the generic help rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/8] linux: add " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 9:21 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-03-10 9:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 9:52 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 10:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:34 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 20:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:29 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] package/uclibc: use " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/8] boot/barebox: " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 8/8] docs/manual: document the br2-external help-local Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:35 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] core: allow for custom, local help; rearrange package-specific help (branch yem/help) Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 8:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 21:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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