[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)

2005-06-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
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

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)

2005-06-01 Thread randy_dunlap
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

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)

2005-05-31 Thread Roman Zippel
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 ---

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)

2005-05-30 Thread Roman Zippel
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

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part) (fwd)

2005-05-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
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,

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even though only a minority of the entries was using ---help--- even before this patch.

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:47:46PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, Hi Roman, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? Does it make Kconfig worse? The ugly thing is that there are currently two different ways to express the same thing. It

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl. This patch renames all instances of ---help--- to simply help in all of the Kconfig files. The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is: Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The separator used for the help is to indent help texts by two additional spaces. Yes, that's an additional indicator. IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even though only a minority of the entries was using ---help---

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? Does it make Kconfig worse? The ugly thing is that there are currently two different ways to express the same thing. It only causes confusion for people who think those different syntaxes had a

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:10:48AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl. This patch renames all instances of ---help--- to simply help in all of the Kconfig files. The main reason for this

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:09:37PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The separator used for the help is to indent help texts by two additional spaces. Yes, that's an additional indicator. IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename ---help--- to help in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even though only a minority of the entries was using ---help--- even before this patch. So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? IMO yes, it's