On Thursday 12 March 2015 14:44:22 Barros Pena, Belen wrote: > On 12/03/2015 14:09, "Damian, Alexandru" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >In fact what we can do is have a pull down list in the page to specific > >and select any of the supported special operators, and let the javascript > >manipulate these special syntaxes. That way no one needs to > >memorize/learn about the supported operators, making the whole thing more > >intuitive and self-directed. > > If we want to introduce operators, we'll need to provide controls in the > configuration variables page to set them, together with help to explain > what each of them means. Considering that we are implementing special > controls to ease the manipulation of certain variables, I would need to > find a way of inserting the operator control so that it works in all cases > (and not only when we simply have a text field to set the variable value). > > > I raised this question when we were designing the variables page, and the > answer was not to include operators. I would rather not do it now at this > late stage, to be honest. With what we have left in the release, I rather > go for the simplest acceptable solution.
I agree - I think we can't solve this in a generic and practical manner in 1.8 with the time available. Let's address this in 1.9. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ toaster mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/toaster
