Re: tty.cdl

[Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk>]

On 27.03.2011 19:11, Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Ilija Kocho wrote:
>
>> On 27.03.2011 14:45, Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
>>> Hi Ilija,
>>>
>>> I get it (about your attempting to build the in-lines using CDL), but, I
>>> would keep things simpler, i.e. just would add two absent entries for
>>> TTY4, TTY5, TTYx in tty.c. Those are conditional definitions depend on
>>>
>> Adding two additional TTYs is an alternative indeed, it is simple and
>> straightforward to implement.
>>
>> My idea was to make system auto extensible and configurable. I have
>> fixed number of TTYs to 6, but as you suggest in your research below it
>> could be defined as a variable. HAL could provide an override too. Also
>> maintenance may be simpler since we avoid duplicated code?!
> Indeed. But, now I think that I gave bad suggest about extension via
> environment variable (How to document this "feature"? Who will know
> about? It looks like a trick) Ilija, so far, I take a timeout to think
> and test your substitutions and I will try to find compromise solution
> without the tricks and complex Tcl/CDL expressions.
>
Thanks,
In meantime I have a code that compiles and works. I will post to
Bugzilla so we can continue there.

Ilija