From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:00:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <1231371777.32308.608.camel@elrond.atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Thu\, 08 Jan 2009 00\:42\:57 +0100") References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106140140.GA22854@zelow.no> <87aba4pj4w.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106183243.GA28479@zelow.no> <873afwnu6n.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090107184338.GA12169@zelow.no> <1231356377.32308.424.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090107202243.GA17480@zelow.no> <1231371777.32308.608.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <87ljtmrx3e.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Hi, >> Figuring out that the one little thing you wanted would be >> available if you just turned on something in the toolchain takes >> alot longer and frustrates alot more. That is the *users* time >> wasted, not CPU time. Ulf> You need the information, but if you instead of: Ulf> [ ] socat Ulf> would get Ulf> --- socat -- needs toolchain with WCHAR Ulf> Would that be uncacceptable? That's what we have already for a bunch of packages. Ulf> Maybe you could get an even better Ulf> description if each package had Ulf> a menuconfig if the package cannot be Ulf> selected with the package name in CAPITALS. Ulf> [ ] NO SOCAT Ulf> If cyou check the box you get Ulf> ? Ulf> [*] NO SOCAT Ulf> --- toolchain must be built with WCHAR enabled Ulf> --- socat requires pacakge No, packages should just select their (library) dependencies, instead of asking the user to hunt around for those dependencies. So in short: - Depend on toolchain details (and display comment if not available) - Select package dependencies -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard