Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

Greg Banks (gnb@alphalink.com.au)
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:22:55 +1000


Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:23:19PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> >
> > 977 missing-experimental-tag
> > 113 spurious-experimental-tag
> > 145 variant-experimental-tag
> > 30 inconsistent-experimental-tag
> > 13 missing-obsolete-tag
> > 41 spurious-obsolete-tag
> > 25 variant-obsolete-tag
> How about extending the language (side effect) to automagically append
> (EXPERIMENTAL) or (OBSOLETE) to the menu line, if dependent on
> those special tags?

Yes, this is obviously a good idea, and also it's what CML2 did.
Especially considering that (NEW) is automatically generated, and
(NEW) is not intuitively different from (EXPERIMENTAL) to the lay
user.

The trouble is actually achieving that in shell-based parsers where
shell code cannot tell whether $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has been used in
a condition.

Greg.

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