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From: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 16/20] patman: buildman: Correct spelling of 'colour'
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 05:23:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D00C4FA6.149AB%yorksun@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ0oatKdWyOUik=aDoh_RLKRiWsvmqJYnykw+Omfagi3Jw@mail.gmail.com>


On 8/9/14 3:34 PM, "Simon Glass" <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:

>Hi Fabio,
>
>On 9 August 2014 16:29, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 9 August 2014 16:01, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>> This code came from another project. Correct the spelling now that
>>>>>it is
>>>>> in U-Boot.
>>>>
>>>> ....
>>>>
>>>>> -        col: terminal.Color() object
>>>>> +        col: terminal.Colour() object
>>>>
>>>> I thought that both forms were correct and that "color" is the
>>>> American way and "colour" the British one.
>>>
>>> Yes, but U-Boot doesn't use American English as I understand it, so
>>
>> I think it just depends on the code's author preference as both
>> formats are valid.
>>
>> Doing a quick grep in U-boot source:
>>
>> $ git grep color | wc -l
>> 646
>> $ git grep colour | wc -l
>> 43
>
>Yes that may well be true :-)

I am not bothered by either spelling. But I hate my computer automatically
corrects it.

York

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-10  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-09 21:32 [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 0/20] Add some missing buildman features and deprecate MAKEALL Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 01/20] buildman: Fix a few typos Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 02/20] buildman: Add some notes about moving from MAKEALL Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 03/20] buildman: Allow building of current source tree Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 04/20] buildman: Move BuilderThread code to its own file Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 05/20] buildman: Sort command line options Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 06/20] buildman: Refactor output options Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 07/20] buildman: Add verbose option to display errors as they happen Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 08/20] buildman: Remove unused non-incremental build method code Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 09/20] buildman: Add an option to specify the buildman config file Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 10/20] buildman: Add a message indicating there are no errors Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 11/20] buildman: Add a few more toolchain examples to the README Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 12/20] buildman: Introduce an 'and' operator for board selection Simon Glass
2014-08-11 17:51   ` York Sun
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 13/20] buildman: Allow selection of the number of commits to build Simon Glass
2014-08-11 17:51   ` York Sun
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 14/20] patman: Move the 'git log' command into a function Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 15/20] patman: Only use git's --no-decorate when available Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 16/20] patman: buildman: Correct spelling of 'colour' Simon Glass
2014-08-09 22:01   ` Fabio Estevam
2014-08-09 22:17     ` Simon Glass
2014-08-09 22:29       ` Fabio Estevam
2014-08-09 22:34         ` Simon Glass
2014-08-10  5:23           ` York Sun [this message]
2014-08-11 20:34           ` Tom Rini
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 17/20] patman: Fix indentation in terminal.py Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 18/20] patman: Correct unit tests to run correctly Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 19/20] patman: Remove the -a option Simon Glass
2014-08-09 21:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 20/20] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL Simon Glass
2014-08-11 18:23   ` York Sun
2014-08-12 15:00     ` Simon Glass
2014-08-12 21:05       ` Tom Rini
2014-08-12 22:22         ` Simon Glass
2014-08-12 22:27           ` Tom Rini

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