[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)
On 5/31/05, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 31 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: there's still the point that it's currently used inconsistently. Why is it so important to fix this inconsistency? Why is it so difficult to accept that both are valid options? Let's just let this patch die quietly, ok? It's not important, I just made it one late evening and submitted it in case it was wanted. It was not wanted so it should just die. No difficulty accepting that. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)
On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:28:59 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: | On 5/31/05, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | On Tue, 31 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: | | there's still the point that it's currently used inconsistently. | | Why is it so important to fix this inconsistency? | Why is it so difficult to accept that both are valid options? | | | Let's just let this patch die quietly, ok? | | It's not important, I just made it one late evening and submitted it | in case it was wanted. It was not wanted so it should just die. No | difficulty accepting that. I second that. Thanks. --- ~Randy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)
Hi, On Tue, 31 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: there's still the point that it's currently used inconsistently. Why is it so important to fix this inconsistency? Why is it so difficult to accept that both are valid options? bye, Roman --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)
Hi, On Tue, 31 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is: Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of those entries use ---help--- as the keyword, the rest use just help. So the users of ---help--- are clearly a minority and by renaming them we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-) And I still don't like this change... bye, Roman --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:17:50AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, Hi Roman, On Tue, 31 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is: Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of those entries use ---help--- as the keyword, the rest use just help. So the users of ---help--- are clearly a minority and by renaming them we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-) And I still don't like this change... there's still the point that it's currently used inconsistently. If you really prefer ---help--- over help (I consider help being better, but as long as it's used consistently each of them is acceptable), feel free to send a patch instead that changes all occurences of help to ---help---. bye, Roman cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. Only a promise, Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
