Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

[Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>]

Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 

  I agree with the main thrust of your argument, but

> It would be hard to know how to order your candidates to present
> them to the user in a natural sequence -- and the problem of deciding
> which variable to present for mutation by the user next, if you choose
> that UI, equates to this.

  There is a natural order for presenting variables to the
user, and that's the menu tree order.  At least in the Linux
kernel CML2 corpus the menus are roughly organised from most
general to most specific options, so options appearing earlier
in the tree are likely to appear in more constraints and you
probably want to ask the user to mutate them later.

Greg.
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