Re: [RFC PATCH 05/28] cli: lil: Rename some functions to be more like TCL

Simon Glass
2021-07-06T15:21:59Z

Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 01:53, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Tom,
>
> In message <20210705185141.GA9516@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> >
> > I think I want to try and address this. While with "hush" we have
> > something that's in heavy active development outside of U-Boot, with LIL
> > we have something that's mature and "done".
>
> Mature? And still without consequent error checking? And done,
> i. e. this will never be fixed?
>
>
> > Tracking an active outside development is HARD and requires
> > constant resync.
>
> Based on that logic we should stop supporting Linux, and stop using
> DTs or file systems - all of these are under "active outside
> development".
>
> This is a bogus argiment.
>
>
> > Look at the last few
> > LIL releases. That could be easily re-worked in to our fork if needed.
> > I see that as a positive, not a negative.
>
> OK, this is your opinion. Mine differs.
>
> Please consider this as a full NAK from me when when you think of it
> as a _replacement_ (even an optional one) of the standard shell. If
> you like, have it added as an _additional_ command, of course fully
> optional and without impact on the rest of U-Boot if not
> intentionally selected.

That seems reasonable to me. There is certainly interest in these
threads in reporting hush, perhaps with a goal of upstreaming the
U-Boot-specific changes back to busybox. But so far no one has done
it...

Regards,
Simon