From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6573 invoked by alias); 31 May 2007 17:35:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 6554 invoked by uid 22791); 31 May 2007 17:35:41 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 May 2007 17:35:39 +0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HtoYg-000378-00; Thu, 31 May 2007 19:35:34 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:01:00 -0000 To: "Paul D. DeRocco" Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20070531173534.GA5944@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: "Paul D. DeRocco" , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <013401c7a3a7$9ddf46f0$887ba8c0@PAULD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <013401c7a3a7$9ddf46f0$887ba8c0@PAULD> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Andrew Lunn X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos configuration question (was Re: [ECOS] General Q ...) X-SW-Source: 2007-05/txt/msg00219.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: > > From: Grant Edwards > > > > I don't think any of the "pros" do. AFAICT, it's just > > eye-candy to lessen the initial culture shock for Visual-C > > programmers. ;) > > Other than just a hackish preference for command lines, is there anything > that ecosconfig can do that configtool can't? You are forgetting the unix philosophy. It is not configtool vs ecosconfig, it is configtool vs ecosconfig+emacs+vim+sed+grep+awk+bash..... Being able to combine these together gives you something very flexible, powerful, and extensible. > The latter seems pretty useful, as it lets you see all the > documentation on options that is otherwise scattered around a > million .cdl files. The document for all loaded packages is in the ecos.ecc file. So you can use more,less,emacs,vim etc to display and probably more importantly, search it. Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss