[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] packages/Config.in: Alphabetical entries sorting

Maxime Hadjinlian maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 08:32:09 UTC 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Maxime Hadjinlian
> <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
>> <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can follow all changes, except this one: the 'Misc devices
>>> firmwares' menu is a submenu, between normal packages. Moving that in
>>> alphabetical order between normal packages seems very odd to me.
>> I did it after looking at the "Interpreter languages and scripting"
>> menu where the "Lua libraries/modules" would appear in order.
>
> There it makes sense: the 'Lua libraries/modules' submenu comes
> immediately after the 'lua' package (that appears in alpabetical order
> with the other packages in that menu). Moving the Lua libraries menu
> away from the lua package is not logical.
I will cancel that move then.
>
>>
>>> Especially because the name 'Misc' does not carry a real meaning.
>>>
>>> By the way, I don't think that 'firmwares' is correct English, the
>>> '-ware' already is plural, so it should be 'Misc devices firmware' or
>>> maybe plain 'Firmware' (are there other firmware packages in buildroot
>>> that are not part of this menu?).
>> After a very quick search, it seems you are right about the 's' of firmware.
>> About the naming of the menu, we already are in Hardware menu, so
>> talking about "devices" may seem redundant, and the Misc is maybe too
>> cumbersome. Although, a simple "Firmware" would not be very friendly.
>> How about settling on "Firmware's Devices" ? Give or take the casing.
>
> Then this should be 'Device firmware'
> because "Firmware's Devices" means "The devices of firmware" which is
> not what you intend to say.
>
> I'm not convinced there exists firmware for something else than a
> device though. For me 'Firmware' or 'Device firmware' are both ok.
I just though "Firmware" to be a bit blunt, but I am not really good
at wordings as you may have seen so I am OK with whatever is wanted.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas



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