[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8 v3] core: add support for package help (branch yem/help)

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2016-06-07 22:18 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat,  4 Jun 2016 18:30:49 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Yann E. MORIN (8):
> >       core/pkg-generic: add support for package-defined help
> >       core: name the package before its help text
> >       core/pkg-utils: add a macro to pretty-print a help entry
> >       package/busybox: use the generic help rules
> >       linux: use the generic help rules
> >       package/uclibc: use the generic help rules
> >       boot/barebox: use the generic help rules
> >       core: use the print-help macro to print the main help
> 
> This last commit made me realize that the helper is a bad idea:
> 
>  1/ It makes the code longer in number of lines.
> 
>  2/ It makes it harder to read.
> 
> So, as discussed on IRC, I've reworked your patches to drop the helper
> that pretty-print the help text, and simply used the @echo calls in the
> various packages.
> 
> So essentially, I've dropped patches 3/8 and 8/8, and I've reworked
> patches 4, 5, 6 and 7 to not use the helper.

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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