From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:25:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet In-Reply-To: References: <20160827161601.2fd0e8f5@free-electrons.com> <87poosaa9d.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160829091938.11ed7ff7@free-electrons.com> <87fupo6mkq.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160829120216.465dcc99@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160829222533.GD5829@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 2016-08-30 00:14 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly: > On 29-08-16 12:02, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:50:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > > >> Yes, but the list is really long and overwhelming. As it stands, the > >> list of packages takes up more than half the size of the manual. I think > >> just asking people to browse packages/ (or make menuconfig) is more > >> sane. > > Right. > We could replace it with a reference to http://autobuild.buildroot.net/stats/ I'm OK with that. > >> > The other thing that I find quite complex for no super benefit is the > >> > whole "doc-asciidoc" infrastructure, but that's another story. > >> > >> Yeah, having this infrastructure just for the manual is maybe a bit > >> overkill. > > I introduced it back in the day to reduce the size of manual.mk a little. Back > then I still believed that all code duplication is evil. Now I think that the > manual generation logic would be a lot easier to understand if it was all > unrolled... > > > I agree, though some people wanted to build several manuals, if I > > remember correctly. > > I never saw the use of that, TBH. But I guess it's out there now so we should > keep it? I've seen it. And I use it as well: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/git/buildroot.config/ http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/tmp/br.config/manual/ 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'