[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 30-08-16 11:00, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout, All,
> 
> On 2016-08-30 00:46 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
>> On 30-08-16 00:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
[snip]
>>> It is entirely imaginable that such users of br2-external have packages
>>> annotated with some documentation for those packages, and want to
>>> include that doc in their manual, so need to generate that list from
>>> Kconfig.
>>
>>  I'm not really enthousiastic about keeping complexity in our Makefiles for
>> imaginary users that may want to have such and such feature :-P
>>
>>  I'm very enthousiastic when people contribute some feature that I'm never going
>> to use myself - but in that case, we know that there is at least one user (the
>> contributor). But here, we really have added a feature with no known users.
> 
> Have you read what I wrote: I *am* using it.
> 
>     http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-August/171055.html

 Er, I haven't read that message because I didn't receive it... Disappearing
mail, that's something that scares the hell out of me... It seems to be the only
one that got lost however. Weird.

> 
>> At
>> the time, it didn't add (much) complexity, but more and more it's starting to
>> weigh down I think.
>>
>>  For sure, the asciidoc support is even more difficult to understand and
>> maintain than the normal package infras.
> 
> And I seem to have a good track-record at looking at it:
> 
>     $ git log --follow --pretty=%an package/doc-asciidoc.mk |sort |uniq -c  |sort -k1nr,2
>          22 Yann E. MORIN
>           8 Samuel Martin
>           7 Thomas De Schampheleire
>           2 Thomas Petazzoni
>           1 Atul Singh
>           1 Jérôme Pouiller
> 
> So, please, please. let's keep this asciidoc infra in place.

 As I wrote, if there is an identified user, let's certainly keep it. Though
honestly I don't think the list of projects is very useful in the brsh manual
either :-)

 Regards,
 Arnout

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