Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos configuration question (was Re: [ECOS] General Q ...)

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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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? The latter seems pretty
> useful, as it lets you see all the documentation on options that is
> otherwise scattered around a million .cdl files.
> 

I for one rarely do anything that I can't script.  ecosconfig
works perfectly for this, the configtool does not.  For example,
I may build as many as 128 (or more) versions of RedBoot at
one time, each requiring its own configuration, build tree, etc.
If I *had* to do this with the GUI, I'd never get my work done!

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